Equity ordered to pay varsity student Sh5m for ‘Wings to Fly’ song

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Equity Centre in Upper Hill, Nairobi.

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Equity Bank has been ordered to pay a university student Sh5 million for the illegal use of his intellectual property created in a song he composed in 2013.

Apart from paying Edwin Obiero Nyadida for the illegal use of his musical work, Justice Wilfrida Okwany directed the lender together with the Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji and the police to pay him Sh250,000 for malicious prosecution.

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