UAF is next NCS target
Feb 04, 2005
National Council of Sports is putting its recently acquired teeth to some use.
By James Bakama
National Council of Sports is putting its recently acquired teeth to some use.
Barely two days after suspending local soccer body FUFA for abuse of office, NCS now also wants order in Uganda Athletics Federation (UAF).
NCS has threatened to crack the whip again if UAF doesn’t meet council’s technical committee in three days to correct what it describes as a fake federation assembly convened last year.
“We’ve given them up to Monday to respond. If they don’t, then they will see what will happen,†said NCS general secretary Jasper Aligawesa explaining that the line minister has accordingly been informed.
The athletics assembly amongst other changes altered its name from Uganda Amateur Athletics Federation. The election date was also changed from January of every election year to a six-month leeway within which to hold polls.
This was all amidst cries of lack of fair play from a section of the assembly. The delegates accused the executive of locking them out of the assembly. This group petitioned NCS.
NCS insists that since there were anomalies in the way the assembly was called and conducted, whatever was ruled in the meeting was a nullity.
NCS has thus maintained that it recognises UAAF and not UAF. It also stands by UAAF’s constitution which says that elections should not be later than January 31 of an election year.
Aligawesa said the athletics body has for months shunned a meeting with NCS without a satisfactory explanation.
Complainants include a pressure group — the Athletes Forum, which on Thursday wrote to NCS expressing its discontent.
Quoting article 2. 1. 8 of the UAAF constitution, an Athletes Forum communication signed by chairman Dixon Okello and secretary David Katana, has asked NCS to take “urgent action to ensure that the constitution is respected.â€
National Council of Sports is putting its recently acquired teeth to some use.
Barely two days after suspending local soccer body FUFA for abuse of office, NCS now also wants order in Uganda Athletics Federation (UAF).
NCS has threatened to crack the whip again if UAF doesn’t meet council’s technical committee in three days to correct what it describes as a fake federation assembly convened last year.
“We’ve given them up to Monday to respond. If they don’t, then they will see what will happen,†said NCS general secretary Jasper Aligawesa explaining that the line minister has accordingly been informed.
The athletics assembly amongst other changes altered its name from Uganda Amateur Athletics Federation. The election date was also changed from January of every election year to a six-month leeway within which to hold polls.
This was all amidst cries of lack of fair play from a section of the assembly. The delegates accused the executive of locking them out of the assembly. This group petitioned NCS.
NCS insists that since there were anomalies in the way the assembly was called and conducted, whatever was ruled in the meeting was a nullity.
NCS has thus maintained that it recognises UAAF and not UAF. It also stands by UAAF’s constitution which says that elections should not be later than January 31 of an election year.
Aligawesa said the athletics body has for months shunned a meeting with NCS without a satisfactory explanation.
Complainants include a pressure group — the Athletes Forum, which on Thursday wrote to NCS expressing its discontent.
Quoting article 2. 1. 8 of the UAAF constitution, an Athletes Forum communication signed by chairman Dixon Okello and secretary David Katana, has asked NCS to take “urgent action to ensure that the constitution is respected.â€