Uganda Table Tennis Association to elect new leaders

A new leadership for the Uganda Table Tennis Association (UTTA) will be known during the general assembly on Saturday.

This follows the adoption of new amendments to the UTTA constitution that paves the way for elections to iron out wrangles that tore apart the previous executive.

The constitution drafted by the Peter Oboma-led interim committee that stipulates for a UTTA board for the association was unanimously adopted by over 25 club delegates at Lugogo.

The need for formulation of a board is meant as a way of defusing the many power centers that sparked off persistent wrangles in the association.

A bitter rift between former chairman Robert Jjagwe and his vice chairman Douglas Kayondo polarized the association since July.

Efforts to iron out the differences hit a dead-end forcing National Council of Sports (NCS) to disband the association.

As most of the stake holders called for a new era, the former UTTA chairman rubbished the as totally illegal.

"What the NCS is doing to table tennis is totally illegal and so shameless of them and as such I will participate in it," he said.

"The illegality is demonstrated by the fact that the UTTA constitution does not provide for any organ called a stakeholders' meeting and yet this is the organ that NCS used to kick off its illegal acts of disbanding our democratically elected executive," he added.

However while addressing the stakeholders NCS secretary Nicholas Muramagi urged the association leadership to desist from wrangles.