Uganda, March 7 -- Two Kyambogo University lecturers have been sued before the Commercial Division of the High Court in Kampala for alleged copyright infringement of an electronic payment system, among other IT software.

Dr John Okuonzi, the director of Information Technology at Kyambogo University and Mr Henry Tumusiime, a member of the same department, are jointly sued together with a company known as Compusoft.

The petitioner is a private company known as Zeenode Ltd and filed the law suit on March 4.

According to court documents, the two dons, through their company Compusoft, tried to pass off as the owners of an online platform known as Zeepay system, an electronic payments collection platform that enables integration of different p...