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Aug 02, 2009
<b>Customs are not to blame for passports</b><br>EDITOR- Reference is made to last week's story in the sports pages of The New Vision 'East Africans fail to travel to Uganda because of passports'.
Customs are not to blame for passports
EDITOR- Reference is made to last week's story in the sports pages of The New Vision 'East Africans fail to travel to Uganda because of passports'.
The story says a match was postponed because the Tanzanian side were uncertain they would be let through customs at the Uganda-Tanzania border. That statement was inaccurate.
The government department that deals with the movement of individuals across borders is Immigration and not Customs. Customs is concerned with movement of goods across borders or individuals with dutiable goods.
- Peter Kaujju
Uganda Revenue Authority
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Where are sprinters?
EDITOR - Our team to the World Athletics Championships is again filled by long distance runners. What happened to the sprinters?
In the past, with no tartan track and other basics, the likes of the late John Akii-Bua, Davis Kamoga, Olive Acii and Peter Rwamuhanda excelled on the world stage.
It is however UAF policy now to only train and develop camps for long distance runners at the expense of sprinters and field event athletes?
Dixon Okello
ATHLETES FORUM
EDITOR- Reference is made to last week's story in the sports pages of The New Vision 'East Africans fail to travel to Uganda because of passports'.
The story says a match was postponed because the Tanzanian side were uncertain they would be let through customs at the Uganda-Tanzania border. That statement was inaccurate.
The government department that deals with the movement of individuals across borders is Immigration and not Customs. Customs is concerned with movement of goods across borders or individuals with dutiable goods.
- Peter Kaujju
Uganda Revenue Authority
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Where are sprinters?
EDITOR - Our team to the World Athletics Championships is again filled by long distance runners. What happened to the sprinters?
In the past, with no tartan track and other basics, the likes of the late John Akii-Bua, Davis Kamoga, Olive Acii and Peter Rwamuhanda excelled on the world stage.
It is however UAF policy now to only train and develop camps for long distance runners at the expense of sprinters and field event athletes?
Dixon Okello
ATHLETES FORUM