Slaughtering 50 cows to rejoice over Obua is weird, to say the least!
Feb 07, 2005
SIR— This is in response to press reports that the football fans pressure group Save Our Soccer (SOS) was planning to slaughter 50 heads of cattle to celebrate the downfall of Uganda’s football governing body FUFA last week.
SIR— This is in response to press reports that the football fans pressure group Save Our Soccer (SOS) was planning to slaughter 50 heads of cattle to celebrate the downfall of Uganda’s football governing body FUFA last week.
The group, led by Aldrine Nsubuga and Denis Mbidde are over the moon after their lifetime dream of seeing Denis Obua’s clique out of FUFA came true last week.
They are entitled to their own decisions on how to spend the money they raise. But every right thinking person would look at it as weird, if not madly extravagant, for SOS to go feasting on 50 cows over Obua and co.
To give a realistic and economic interpretation, 50 cows will amount to sh15m, with an average of sh300,000 per cow. How much impact would that have if the Aldrine and Mbidde group used that money for donating footballs and netballs to upcountry teams?
They can as well use it for renovating Nakivubo Stadium or dropping the money in the sponsorship basket for this year’s Super League, which is already in tatters after main sponsor Top TV pulled back its wallet. This way, SOS would become more patriotic and heroic, than slaughtering 50 cows to eat in a frenzy on February 26 at Nakivubo.
Alternatively they can use that money to host a big national conference at Nakivubo or Namboole Stadium for stakeholders countrywide to debate the best way of saving Ugandan soccer.
Denis Ocwich
Kampala
The group, led by Aldrine Nsubuga and Denis Mbidde are over the moon after their lifetime dream of seeing Denis Obua’s clique out of FUFA came true last week.
They are entitled to their own decisions on how to spend the money they raise. But every right thinking person would look at it as weird, if not madly extravagant, for SOS to go feasting on 50 cows over Obua and co.
To give a realistic and economic interpretation, 50 cows will amount to sh15m, with an average of sh300,000 per cow. How much impact would that have if the Aldrine and Mbidde group used that money for donating footballs and netballs to upcountry teams?
They can as well use it for renovating Nakivubo Stadium or dropping the money in the sponsorship basket for this year’s Super League, which is already in tatters after main sponsor Top TV pulled back its wallet. This way, SOS would become more patriotic and heroic, than slaughtering 50 cows to eat in a frenzy on February 26 at Nakivubo.
Alternatively they can use that money to host a big national conference at Nakivubo or Namboole Stadium for stakeholders countrywide to debate the best way of saving Ugandan soccer.
Denis Ocwich
Kampala