Sports leaders have applauded the minister of state for sports Hon. Peter Ogwang for aligning the Federation of Uganda football associations (FUFA) to work under the National council of sports (NCS), the sports regulatory body, especially on matters of government funding.
There was a clash between the state minister of state for sports Hon. Peter Ogwang and FUFA president Moses Magogo during the education committee sitting on Wednesday as the National council of sports was presenting the sports 2026/2027 financial year sports budget framework paper.
This is after Magogo tried to present a surprise document different from what NCS had presented without government knowledge.
However, FUFA and the National council of sports held a meeting on Wednesday afternoon in Lugogo where they agreed on the procedures.
Ambrose Tashobya, the National council of sports (NCS) chairman, who chaired the meeting that was also attended by FUFA President Moses Magogo, said that it was just a matter of streamlining procedure.
“You know government is quite systematic and has bureaucrat in the sense that when you want to present something there is a way it has to be presented and how – the procedures you have to follow to present the same,” Tashyobya told this website.
Tashyobya revealed that FUFA was given a day to make amendments and present the document to NCS formally before the regulatory body can present an incorporated budget to the committee.
“What has been forwarded to us ideally is already in the mainstream budget and the needs that have been highlighted are the needs that we already heighted to parliament, but maybe it is not to the size and tune and not being football specific,” added Tashobya.
Robert Jaggwe, the former Uganda table tennis association president has hailed the minister for aligning FUFA to work under NCS – the regulatory body.
“I want to thank the honorable minister for taking back the powers of the National council of sports to allocate the money because that is the duty of the national council of sports, they are the regular and you have to respect them.”
Jaggwe said that it was irregular for FUFA to bypass NCS and sneak a supplementary budget request document to parliament.
“You must put amounts of money that are agreeable to all of us; that are fair and realistic of course. Then, you must justify the money. Which justification are you using?”
He however believes that NCS ought to consult the sports federations and associations before presenting the budget to parliament.
“Once we submit the budgets, NCS should call the federations and show what is realistic, then we have a joint meeting agree on a document we take to parliament,” reasoned Jjagwe.
Despite looking at the FUFA president as selfish and only football-centered, Jaggwe has applauded Magogo’s impact on the sector ever since he became a member of parliament.
“Even to repel the 1964 sports act, he had to first table a private members bill then NCS and government woke and in one year we had a new sports Act. But from 1964 to 2023, we were using an absolute Act,” Jaggwe highlighted.
Of the Shs36bn federations and operations budget off the Shs508bn recurrent NCS budget, FUFA takes a lion’s share of Shs19bn, with the second most funded federation getting Shs3bn a year.
