Capacity Building: FUFA graces the International Sports Law Program at Sheraton Hotel

Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) is among the invited sports federations and associations at the on-going  International sports law training program  at Sheraton Kampala Hotel in Kampala.

FUFA Legal officer Denis Lukambi is attending three day program started on Friday morning and will climax on Sunday afternoon.

‘The discussions we are having at this seminar are healthy as we forge a way forward on how sports law should better be utilized. As FUFA, we have been concerned by cases of counterfeit, contracts of players, hooliganism, anti-doping, image rights and the like. The law addresses all those concerns’ Denis Lukambi, FUFA Legal Officer.

For the third year in a row, FUFA is engaged in this program organized by the Uganda Olympic Committee in conjunction with the Olympic Solidarity and ISDE Law Business School.

Professor John White from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom is the chief facilitator and will proceed over the topics at hand alongside Dr Georgina White, Moses Mwase, Dev Kumar Parmar, Sarah Ochwada and Dr. Donald Rukare.

18 countries are in attendance across the African country and representatives from a number of sports federations and associations in Uganda.

Topics:

• The Introduction to sports law: The approach of academia and the approach in practice
• The Ancient Olympics: Myths and Realities
• Court of Arbitration for Sports and its operation: a practical approach
• The sports and employment law, human rights and sports – emerging issues (some current criminological and legal issues)
• E-Sports, corruption and sports, anti-doping (the legal framework)
• Panel discussion on challenges to sports law in Africa seeking the way forward
• Seminar Evaluation

Participants:

Dickson Jere (Zambia), Seydou Me Mohammed Diagne (Senegal), Ringisai K.H Mapondera (Zimbabwe), Bahire Alphonse (Rwanda), Ibrahim Sati Nkwa (Tanzania), Richard Papie (Mauritius), Emmanuel Theu (Malawi), Omar Mohammed Addo (Somalia), Harrison El Haj Paul (South Sudan), Jean Paul Manwangari (Burundi), Mohamed Vala (Mozambique), Mathias Dinga Nyoh (Cameroon), Sharp Kopano Yarona (Botswana), Rawal Paurvi (Kenya), Sarah Ochwada (Kenya), Edjaide Pehena Walla Paganao (Togo), Suliman Allahjabo Cabo (Sudan), Tecle Sahlemariam (Eritrea), Adv Bothobile Shebe (Lesotho), Sadia Bakarr (Sierra Leone), Muhongo Tuhafeni Mekondjo (Namibia), William Fredrick Blick (Uganda Olympic Committee), Dr Donald Rukare (Uganda Olympic Committee), Moses Mwase (Uganda Olympic Committee), Kenneth Gimugu (Uganda Olympic Committee), Dunstan K. Nsubuga (Uganda Olympic Committee), Abbas Byaruhanga (Futsal Association Uganda), Denis Lukambi (Federation of Uganda Football Associations), Dominic Akena (Uganda Handball Federation), Michael Wandera (Uganda Weightlifting and Wrestling Federation), Phillip Wafula Muhindo (Uganda Hockey Federation), Daniel Ajju Odongo (Uganda Taekwondo Federation), Andrew Masaba (Uganda Archery Federation), Dan Wegulo (Uganda Rugby Union), Sophia Masagazi (Uganda Volleyball Federation), Enock Kayondo (Uganda Table Tennis Federation), Franck Francis Kiwa (Uganda Athletics Federation), Hudson Ssegamwenge (Federation of Uganda Basketball Association), Chris Ibaale (Uganda Cycling Association), Apollo Katumba (Bomwans), Lillian Tibatwema, William Byaruhanga, Yorokamu Bamwine, Shadiah Nakamanya, Ivan Magomu (Uganda Christian University), Timothy Kaggya (Uganda Christian University), Alex Luganda (Uganda Law Society), Suzan Nakabuye (Ministry of Justice), Samson Ssemakadde (Journalist), Harriet Ityanga (Ministry of Justice), Fatima Nanziri (Ministry of Justice)

Facilitators: Professor White (United Kingdom), Frances Georgina White (United Kingdom), Dev Kumar Parmar (United Kingdom), Moses Mwase (Uganda), Sarah Ochwada (Kenya) and Dr. Donald Rukare (Uganda)