A Ugandan musician, Richard Kaweesa, has sued President Yoweri Museveni demanding for compensation after the head of state using his song for campaigns.
Kaweesa claims Museveni used his song themed “You want another time that rap” in the run up to the 2011 presidential polls without his authority.
In a petition filed at the Constitutional Court, the musician now wants Museveni compeled to compensate.
“In any case, the presidential immunity is not absolute because a president can be a proper and necessary party to legal proceedings in the supreme court, challenging presidential elections under Article 104 of the constitution, where he issued for his personal actions during elections,” he argues in the petition.
“Therefore, not all acts of the president are official presidential actions, which must be protected by presidential immunity.”
Kaweesa is understood to have written Museveni in 2018 seeking to be paid USh5 billion in indemnity for copyright infringement.
However, in his own response, the head of state dismissed the musicians claims, asserting he was the rightful owner of the song since he commissioned it.
