The Uganda Medical Association (UMA) has expressed displeasure over the latest music video of singer Gereson Wabuyi, alias Gravity Omutujju.
UMA president Herbert Luswata said Monday the clinical coats and stethoscope as well as the dance moves by Shakira Shakira in the video portrays a negative image of medical professionals.
“There are pictures of musicians (Gravity and Shakira) which are trending on social media which are not looking good at all, where some musician is holding something which is looking like a needle and holding a woman bending down in a way which is very uncomfortable,” Dr Luswata said.
“This musician is putting on a clinical coat and a stethoscope and he’s portraying to be examining a woman who is bending down against him and it looks ugly against us.”
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Dr Luswata said that as medical professionals they feel paralyzed and abused by Gravity’s song.
“It is as if these people are trying to portray that this is what we do to people’s women when they come to our examination rooms,” Luswata said.
He said the association is to write a letter to the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), asking them to ban the song.
“I was talking to our chair of ethics and professionalism, and we are writing a letter which we are going to send to UCC. We are going to request to have this song banned on moral grounds.”
Known for socially conscious lyrics, Gravity has always had issues with authority figures and music gatekeepers due to his musical content.
Just months ago, his ‘Doboozi Lya Mutuuze’ song was removed from video streaming app, YouTube due to alleged copyright infringement.
In 2017, he found himself in trouble with the National Resistance Movement over his song “Emyaka”. The party petitioned UCC to ban the song over its lyrical content they believed targeted President Museveni.
