FUFA rejects Bika plan

Jun 08, 2008

FUFA has rejected a call on its competitions committee to re-schedule the kickoff of the Super League set for August 1 and give the Bika tournament that starts on July 12 prominence.

By Swalley Kenyi

FUFA has rejected a call on its competitions committee to re-schedule the kickoff of the Super League set for August 1 and give the Bika tournament that starts on July 12 prominence.

The 37-day Bika football and netball competition is a tournament of over 30 Buganda Kingdom clans whose winner takes a shield.

Organisers of the annual competition had asked the federation to extend the kick-off of the new season, arguing that it shared players, grounds, referees and other FUFA facilities.

But FUFA competitions secretary Moses Magogo rubbished the request for what he called “national interest”.

“We are talking about the integrity of a national competition and someone is talking of Mamba versus Nte (clans). We shall not change because our sponsors are already planning to broadcast the opening match,” a furious Magogo said yesterday.

The Bika organising committee of John Ssebana Kizito has now appointed Edward Luyimbazi Mugalu, Lwanga Kamere, Paul Ssali and Joseph Kabunga to meet FUFA president Lawrence Mulindwa and convince him to delay kickoff of the Super League.

“The Bika football and (national) league cannot go on concurrently. We had rather call it off this year,” a tournament official said yesterday.

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