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Friday, 30 July 2010

Uganda National Anthem Composer Awarded 50Mn

William Kakooma has been awarded 50Mn shillings to surrender rights of ownership to the song he composed way back in 1962 that became the National Anthem. He was paid 2,000 Shs as compensation for his composition in 1962.

Last year, Kakooma was offered 150mn as settlement out of court which he rejected opting for 4.5Bn. Now court has awarded Kakooma 50Mn for the National Anthem to be owned by the state and not both as it is for now.

POSTED BY: uowd AT 09:00 pm | Permalink | 4 Comments | E-mail this

Comments:

if he doesn't want the money, the government shud simply snatch the rights from him. We cant have an individual owning rights to a national symbol..

Posted by salambwa on 08/14/2010 23:18:30

oh would lke also to compose a song because that was amussive amount of money

Posted by jones on 08/24/2010 09:24:15

The likes of Salambwa are those who want to use their opinions as rights. William Kakooma still has a right to his efforts of creativity. In fact he has to be honored for this song since there are no plans to change it. If there is any debate about it, then we better use the one called "you want another rap"

Posted by oken alfred on 02/23/2011 08:41:34

In fact people lyk Kakooma, en dat one who designed da first Ugandan flag should be honored en pain wz a huge amount of money for da work they did 4oiu Uganda, en doz guys lyk dat Mzee who put da German union Jack en first rose the ugandan National flag should be thanked a lot in a very respectively way en live in good conditions of life

Posted by Emma K on 06/08/2011 15:43:44

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