The commissioner of physical education and sports Rev Can Duncans Mugumya has suspended Uganda Secondary Schools Sports Associations (USSSA) games in Bushenyi district.

This comes after the Bushenyi district USSSA sports committee upheld the district secondary schools head teachers’ decision to suspend St Kagwa Bushenyi High School for this year’s games that were to start next week.

“Reference is made to an appeal from St Kagwa Bushenyi High School dated 9th March 2023 over its exclusion from this year’s district competitions and qualifiers for Bushenyi district and social medial circulations on the above…….This is therefore to invite you for a meeting on Monday 13 March 2023 at the Ministry of Education and Sports headquarters Embassy House 7th floor in the boardroom at 2:00 pm,” read part of the letter from Mugumya.

Mugumya goes on to invite the national chairman ASSHU, USSSA president and the association's immediate past president, chairman USSSA Ankole zone, DEO Bushenyi, Municipal Education Officer Bushenyi, District Sports Officer Bushenyi, Principal Karera technical Sheema, chairman social services Bushenyi, Bushenyi District Secondary Schools Sports Association chairman and headteacher of St Kagwa for this meeting.

The head teachers in Bushenyi district under their association ASSHU, claim to have banned St Kagwa for two years after the Bushenyi school was found guilty of having fielded ineligible players during the 2022 Bushenyi sub-region games in Mitooma district.

Truly, St Kagwa was found guilty of using Derrick Taremwa and Maxima Nuwagira, who had before enrolled at Karera Technical school for technical studies before being admitted to St Kagwa for high school.

St Kagwa was suspended from the tournament and fined sh500,000, but ASSHU Bushenyi declined to recognise USSSA greater Bushenyi's decision and made their ruling.

According to a CID police report, Taremwa is a true student, who continued with studies at St Kagwa and sat UACE last year while Nuwagira was later expelled for indiscipline.

Most districts across the country commence their competitions next week with school teams going through the lower level competitions at zones, where the best teams will qualify to play at the district level from where the best will go to the region to battle for national qualification.