KCC FC fans fight surveyors
Jan 06, 2008
SURVEYORS were yesterday roughed up, a guard disarmed and almost set ablaze by bitter KCC FC fans protesting the sale of their club’s land at Lugogo. The guard, who threatened to shoot, was overpowered by the football club’s supporters who thereafter threatened to burn him before being restraine
By James Bakama
and Phillip Corry
SURVEYORS were yesterday roughed up, a guard disarmed and almost set ablaze by bitter KCC FC fans protesting the sale of their club’s land at Lugogo. The guard, who threatened to shoot, was overpowered by the football club’s supporters who thereafter threatened to burn him before being restrained.
“Tumwokye na lo (Let’s burn him up),†they yelled as the Kampala City Council surveyors’ measuring equipment was also withdrawn.
Police arrived in time and whisked away the victims. One Isiagi is said to have been sold the land by Kampala City Council which is ironically the football club’s parent institution.
Kampala Central Division Deputy Town Clerk Godfrey Kisekka, who also doubles as club chairman, in an address to the fans conceded that he was in a dilemma.
“I am an employee of the institution that is said to have sold the plot but I have not been officially informed. It puts me in a tight situation because I have no explanation for the club fans,†said Kisekka.
Kampala Central Division Chairman Godfrey Nyakana was also very bitter. He revealed that the club’s lawyer Richard Omongole had been contacted to embark on legal proceedings starting with an injunction to stop further development on the ground.
Ardent KCC fan Fred Kaleebi insisted that fans should be mobilised to stop encroachment on the club’s property.
“We are not moving anywhere. These so called investors should go elsewhere,†he stressed.
The fans were awoken to the developments shortly after the Christmas holidays with news in The New Vision that the club house had been razed.
and Phillip Corry
SURVEYORS were yesterday roughed up, a guard disarmed and almost set ablaze by bitter KCC FC fans protesting the sale of their club’s land at Lugogo. The guard, who threatened to shoot, was overpowered by the football club’s supporters who thereafter threatened to burn him before being restrained.
“Tumwokye na lo (Let’s burn him up),†they yelled as the Kampala City Council surveyors’ measuring equipment was also withdrawn.
Police arrived in time and whisked away the victims. One Isiagi is said to have been sold the land by Kampala City Council which is ironically the football club’s parent institution.
Kampala Central Division Deputy Town Clerk Godfrey Kisekka, who also doubles as club chairman, in an address to the fans conceded that he was in a dilemma.
“I am an employee of the institution that is said to have sold the plot but I have not been officially informed. It puts me in a tight situation because I have no explanation for the club fans,†said Kisekka.
Kampala Central Division Chairman Godfrey Nyakana was also very bitter. He revealed that the club’s lawyer Richard Omongole had been contacted to embark on legal proceedings starting with an injunction to stop further development on the ground.
Ardent KCC fan Fred Kaleebi insisted that fans should be mobilised to stop encroachment on the club’s property.
“We are not moving anywhere. These so called investors should go elsewhere,†he stressed.
The fans were awoken to the developments shortly after the Christmas holidays with news in The New Vision that the club house had been razed.