Time federations adapted to change
Feb 04, 2007
Opinion<br><br>TWO assurances came up for Ugandan sport last week.
Opinion
By Wangwe Mulakha
DEPUTY SPORTS WRITER
TWO assurances came up for Ugandan sport last week.
Uganda Amateur Boxing Federation president Roger Ddungu announced his determination to make the national Open the best event ever.
He announced cash prizes of sh0.2m for champions and sh0.1m for runners-up in the respective weight categories of the February 10-18 championship. There is a motorcycle prize for the overall club, and the spectators will also be rewarded through a raffle.
While Ddungu made his pronouncements, the local football governing body chief, Lawrence Mulindwa, also declared FUFA debt free. He said the days when the football body lived in debt are over.
Mulindwa has just rescued the FUFA House, Mengo, land title from Swift Commodities over a sh300m debt left behind by the Denis Obua administration.
If the two leaders live by their declarations, then one should assume that sanity is about to return to Uganda’s two most popular, but, most troubled sports federations.
It is high time that other federations that live in obscurantism, financial mismanagement and administrative misfits picked a leaf and adopted to positive change. They should accept the Global Village challenges than hiding behind paperwork.
By Wangwe Mulakha
DEPUTY SPORTS WRITER
TWO assurances came up for Ugandan sport last week.
Uganda Amateur Boxing Federation president Roger Ddungu announced his determination to make the national Open the best event ever.
He announced cash prizes of sh0.2m for champions and sh0.1m for runners-up in the respective weight categories of the February 10-18 championship. There is a motorcycle prize for the overall club, and the spectators will also be rewarded through a raffle.
While Ddungu made his pronouncements, the local football governing body chief, Lawrence Mulindwa, also declared FUFA debt free. He said the days when the football body lived in debt are over.
Mulindwa has just rescued the FUFA House, Mengo, land title from Swift Commodities over a sh300m debt left behind by the Denis Obua administration.
If the two leaders live by their declarations, then one should assume that sanity is about to return to Uganda’s two most popular, but, most troubled sports federations.
It is high time that other federations that live in obscurantism, financial mismanagement and administrative misfits picked a leaf and adopted to positive change. They should accept the Global Village challenges than hiding behind paperwork.