By Seguya Musa
Singer Bebe Cool has come out to respond to Maurice Kirya’s recent remarks on musicians who attended President Museveni’s Tubonga Nawe launch dinner.
In his Facebook post, the singer points out that every dinner has a purpose and if someone wants to talk to the President about the copy right law, he should organize a copy right dinner. He posted:
”I wish to remind, correct, and guide my fellow musicians/fans who have totally gone wrong on the issue of president YOWERI KAGUTA MUSEVENI dining with artists and not talking about copyright. The invitation cards were very clear YOU R INVITED TO THE TUBONGA NAWE EXPERIENCE not to the copyright law dinner. To host a president, there is a lot u have to go through but the most important is to understand why your hosting him and PROTOCOL requires u include all details as why u inviting him in your invitation letter. In this case we invited him to grace this function so that we could show appreciation, launch a song for him and show him that we are ready to support him during the coming campaigns. We also made sure we share that moment with comedians and fashion designers despite the little time given of which the two hours he spent with us was really a lot. If u remember well, we did not even perform for him, neither did we even sing the song we were unveiling. We stuck to program because responsible person is expected to do so when u host responsible people. As artists we do have an office that is in charge of copyright and they too were invited to attend the event because they r stake holders too but it’s important to remember that we had a programme and we were to follow it. The president has no problem what so ever with the copyright law but only he appointed ministers to take care of that but when it comes to addressing him about that,better u also invite the responsible ministers too coz they too become stake holders.All that wasn’t on the agenda. U can’t invite a president to a wedding and start addressing him about politics or police coz then u run a risk of not hosting him again. If u want to address him about copyright then invite him for a copyright conference and I believe he will attend but at an appropriate time. This moment is a moment to show him support. They will be a right moment when we will invite him and address him about the general problems our fraternity faces not only copyright. I also wish to ask you to always honour invitations coz then when u attend, u will understand the purpose of the function and if u don’t understand pliz alway ask the organisers b4 u mislead people. Otherwise thank you all for understanding”