The Parliament of the Republic of Uganda has today held a special session to congratulate and honour the Uganda Cranes for doing the nation proud by winning a prestigious continental award at the Glo CAF awards held in Abuja Nigeria last week.
The motion for a resolution of parliament to congratulate the Uganda Cranes and shot stopper Denis Onyango for being voted the African national team of the year 2016 and the African player of the year based in Africa respectively by CAF was moved by Hon Denis Obua the captain of the Parliamentary football team.
‘First we need to congratulate and thank the Cranes for finally qualifying to the AFCON after so many years. They did us proud as a nation and now we are optimistic that at the final tournament which starts this weekend in a group that has Ghana, Egypt and Mali the Lord will bless and strengthen the team such that they continue to do us proud by winning more games’ stated Obua.
FUFA was heavily represented by a strongman delegation that included Darius Mugoye the 2nd Vice president, Executive Committee member Hamid Juma, FUFA CEO Edgar Watson and his Deputy Humphrey Mandu and FUFA fm senior staff Hassan Kirunda Kakaire.
Many members took to the floor to commend the team and Onyango for their achievements making suggestions of how suitably they should be rewarded.
They went on to deliberate on several issues concerning the sports sector as a whole and what ought to be done to promote it such that Uganda can develop many ‘Onyangos’ and make sure the ‘successes’ of 2016 are not a one off.
Many of the members who took to the floor called for increased funding towards sports, tax exemptions on sports equipment, development and preservation of sports facilities across the country among others as some of the items that can be handled to boost the sports sector in Uganda.
The members agreed that a sum of Ushs 500,000/- ( Five Hundred Thousand shillings only) be deducted from each one of their emoluments as a one off and be given to the Cranes as a token of appreciation for flying the Uganda flag so high on the continent.
