By Johnson Were

The University rugby league may end prematurely after teams vowed not to step on the pitch unless the rugby governing body (URU) accounts for the sponsorship money they got from Western Union.

This was after the third round of the league at Makerere Graveyard ground on Idd Day flopped due to the absence of referees, an ambulance, food and water for the teams.

On top of that there was no rugby union official at the ground. “The league will be no more until the union comes clean on Western Union money,” a furious Jerome Buyonga MUBS chairman and the teams’ representative on the organizing committee stated.

“There was no ambulance, medic and even any Union official. We tried to raise Coach Yayiro Kasasa (rugby manager) but his phone was off, while Jacob Bukenya (country rugby manager) was not taking calls and that is why we are now suspending the league,” Buyonga stressed.

Kyambogo club chairman Brandon Luswata, Xfm Impis chairman Louis Lwanga and Gulu University sports tutor Jildo Odong echoed Buyondo’s statement with disappointment.

“They should have stopped us from coming if they knew that there is no money. But again they assured us that the sponsor released money so there must be dirty deals,” a furious Odong stated.

The university rugby league nearly turned into a still birth at its launch last month when teams rejected the poor quality kit from the sponsor and it took the URU and university officials two hours of intense negotiation to restore calm.

Efforts to get a comment from Kasasa and Bukenya were futile as they did not pick up their our phone calls.