Former FUFA vice president in charge of administration Eng. Moses Magogo is the new Ugandan FA president.
FUFA Electoral committee chairperson Patrick Okanya declared Magogo Uganda’s next top football administrator at 01:54pm (local time) during an ordinary General Assembly held at Jinja Nile Resort Hotel on Saturday.
The Computer Engineer takes over from Lawrence Mulindwa who chose not to seek another term of office after serving two terms of four years each. In an election conducted for purposes of fulfilling a requirement in the statutes that a President must score 50+ 1 votes, Magogo polled 68 out of 72 votes cast. Three delegates rejected him while one vote was counted invalid.
Magogo later named his new executive with Justus Mugisha as first Vice President, Darius Mugoye is second Vice President and Mujib Kasule is 3rd Vice President representing FUFA Super League clubs. M/s Mariam Kaliga is a woman representative on the new executive.
Others are Dr. Patrick Ogwel (Northern), Samuel Mpiima (Buganda), Sam Lwere (Eastern), Richard Ochom (North Eastern), Rogers Byamukama (Kitara), Hamid Juma (Kampala), Chris Kalibbala (Western) and Rasoul Ariga representing West Nile. The size of the executive was cut from 21 to only 13 in the new statutes.
The outgoing FUFA Executive committee members jointly hailed Lawrence Mulindwa for being an exemplary leader and presented a glittering award to him.
Mulindwa handed over a copy of the FUFA constitution, a Federation logo and a ball to Magogo which he described as key ‘administrative tools’. Mulindwa is expected to officially hand over the office to the incoming President mid next week.
