Interpol Joins Search For KKL Baby Crane Players

By Alfred Wasike
and Phillip Corry
THE International Police (INTERPOL) have joined Dutch and Ugandan security officials in the hunt for two Kampala Kids League (KKL) Baby Cranes players who disappeared after the KKL Under 14 team won the Haarlem Cup in Heemstede, Netherlands.

Fahad Ssekandi and Daniel Serunkuma vanished in Heemstede on July 26 as their teammates boarded a bus to the airport for their return flight.

An official at Interpol’s world headquarters, Paris, yesterday said, “It is a very serious thing for children to disappear just like that. We have decided to join our colleagues in the Netherlands and Uganda to find those children. We shall get them whether alive or dead.”

But the Interpol office in Kampala was tight-lipped about the hunt. “We cannot comment now,” an official said yesterday.

The New Vision investigations have, however, revealed that the children escaped Dutch security and re-entered Sweden.

Reliable sources said the boys were facilitated by a close female Ugandan friend residing in Goteborg, whom they met while playing in the Gothia world youth cup at Heden, on July 13-19.

“These boys are in Sweden and that was the intended destiny,” a reliable source who preferred anonymity said. “A Ugandan model who visited them during the Gothia cup is the one now keeping them.”

The Netherlands ambassador, Matthieu Peters, said, “It is very unfortunate because it will sabotage future tours and undermine EU confidence in Ugandan players.”

Sports minister, Henry Oryem said, “This is unfortunate. I have asked the National Council of Sports to investigate the matter and give me a detailed report upon which we shall act.”
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