Grammy Award winning Jamaican group Morgan Heritage has taken out on the Tanzania Communication Regulatory Authority (TCRA) for banning their hit song ‘Hallelujah’ featuring Diamond Platnumz.
The song which was released in September 2017 was banned by TCRA five months after its release.
According to Basata and TCRA the song was banned for what they termed as being against the country’s morals.
They further argued that the song was actually blasphemous with the video praising indecent ladies.
However, Morgan Heritage have disagreed with the two bodies, stating that they did nothing wrong by glorifying women using Biblical literature.
According to Roy “Gramps” Morgan, “The Bible say God created woman when He saw man lonely. So we will never stop, ever glorifying woman in a positive way. Because when we do it and we use the bit*h word, we get crucified. Now we say ‘Hallelujah’ we get in trouble. They say we blasphemy. Let the woman be praised Hallelujah.”
Despite the ban, the song has attracted more than 10.5 million views on YouTube besides being a club banger.