NCS team ready with report on boxing wars
Oct 08, 2008
NATIONAL Council of Sports (NCS) will make a final ruling on the petition lodged by boxing clubs against the Uganda Amateur Boxing Federation executive tomorrow.
By Swalley Kenyi
NATIONAL Council of Sports (NCS) will make a final ruling on the petition lodged by boxing clubs against the Uganda Amateur Boxing Federation executive tomorrow.
NCS was due to pass a ruling today after a month-long hearing where different stakeholders appeared before a committee set up by the Council to probe the wrangles in the boxing federation.
A group of clubs led by former boxer and Kampala Central Division LC 3 chairman Godfrey Nyakana petitioned NCS seeking to dislodge the UABF president Roger Ddungu from the helm.
In an interview yesterday, a committee member, who did not want to be named, hinted that Ddungu had been cleared of any wrongdoing.
The committee is composed of Julius Ziwa, NCS general secretary Jasper Aligawesa, Peninah Kabenge and Dr. Kigongo Bukenya with George William Odwong as its chairman.
But the source added that Ddungu had been advised to strike a deal with the renegade clubs in regard to the four-year term of office and the sh0.5m affiliation fees which are at the centre of the differences between the two warring groups.
Without divulging details, NCS general secretary Aligawesa, who is also a member of the four-man probe team handling the petition, said their findings will be unveiled at a press conference soon after today’s public holiday (Independence Day).
Earlier in the week, state minister for sports Charles Bakkabulindi launched his own investigation and ordered UABF to postpone their Annual General Meeting which was due in Kasese on October 25. He demanded for all relevant documents related to the issues under review.
NATIONAL Council of Sports (NCS) will make a final ruling on the petition lodged by boxing clubs against the Uganda Amateur Boxing Federation executive tomorrow.
NCS was due to pass a ruling today after a month-long hearing where different stakeholders appeared before a committee set up by the Council to probe the wrangles in the boxing federation.
A group of clubs led by former boxer and Kampala Central Division LC 3 chairman Godfrey Nyakana petitioned NCS seeking to dislodge the UABF president Roger Ddungu from the helm.
In an interview yesterday, a committee member, who did not want to be named, hinted that Ddungu had been cleared of any wrongdoing.
The committee is composed of Julius Ziwa, NCS general secretary Jasper Aligawesa, Peninah Kabenge and Dr. Kigongo Bukenya with George William Odwong as its chairman.
But the source added that Ddungu had been advised to strike a deal with the renegade clubs in regard to the four-year term of office and the sh0.5m affiliation fees which are at the centre of the differences between the two warring groups.
Without divulging details, NCS general secretary Aligawesa, who is also a member of the four-man probe team handling the petition, said their findings will be unveiled at a press conference soon after today’s public holiday (Independence Day).
Earlier in the week, state minister for sports Charles Bakkabulindi launched his own investigation and ordered UABF to postpone their Annual General Meeting which was due in Kasese on October 25. He demanded for all relevant documents related to the issues under review.