Celebrated local musician Joseph Mayanja popularly known as Jose Chameleon has officially denounced and abandoned his controversial stage name Chameleon and legally taken on his childhood name Joseph Mayanja.

Chameleon who hopes to unseat the current city mayor Erias Lukwago in the upcoming elections made the decree through a deed poll in which he renounced his stage name but the incident happened on August 7, 2020

“I Mayanja Joseph formerly known as Mayanja Joseph Chameleone, a citizen of Uganda do hereby absolutely renounce and abandon the use of my former name of Mayanja Joseph Chameleone and lieu, therefore, assume as from the day hereof my new name Mayanja Joseph”

By the deed poll, Mayanja declared he shall at all times in records going forward sign transactions, deeds and instruments under his new name.

“And I hereby authorize and request all persons to designate and address me by the name of Mayanja Joseph.”