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In 1991 Eng. Fred Mubiru, 40, switched
to supporting KCC FC after his childhood
club Nytil collapsed for lack of sponsorship.
Fourteen years down the road, Mubiru is
hoping to stop his beloved KCC FC from treading
a similar path. Mubiru and colleagues –
John Mutenda, Moses Kalungi, John Matovu
and Emmanuel Serunjogi have launched Save
Our KCC (SOK) – a lobby that wants
KCC Chairman Dr. Hasib Takuba Kabuye and
his besieged secretary Deo Kijjambu out.
SOK allegedly are fronting Godfrey Kisekka
as a replacement for Takuba.
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SOK claims Takuba’s “passiveness
and laxity” has hurt KCC. According
to SOK, accountability issues have blighted
Kijjambu’s term as KCC secretary.
“Kijjambu took one of the KCC vans
but has never remitted money yet the van
makes Shs 40,000 per day [on a PSV service]…We
need to be more open,” Mubiru said.
Kijjambu, however, is unmoved. “Who
are they (SOK)? They are all former failures
trying to get back to KCC through the backdoor.”
Takuba described SOK’s action “illegal.”
“Those people are not serious…they
know the procedure at the club; they can
come and get answers from the institution,”
Takuba said.
KCC diehard Aldrine Nsubuga, who led the
2002 ‘revolution’ at Lugogo
that ousted then chairman James Sseggane,
says SOK’s “coup” will
fail partly because of their “unconstitutional
approach”. He also says the architects
have no “moral authority.”
Mubiru once served as KCC’s welfare
chairman. Matovu (administration), Mutenda
(finance) and Kalungi (finance) have all
worked as KCC vice chairpersons before.
“You can’t come in KCC today
and say you want change and yet you have
been there for 20 years,” Nsubuga
said.
SOK, however, wants to get the constitutional
review process back on the rails. The process
led by KCC patron – John Ssebaana
Kizito (Kampala mayor) – has largely
stalled.
KCC is pondering whether the chair of the
club must be an employee of KCC and if the
fans should appoint the club’s executive
members.
Nsubuga says attachment to KCC, the city
institution, encourages the recycling of
club administrators – denying the
club the new order it badly craves.
“Takuba came to KCC as a saint but
has since been swallowed by the system to
the extent that when he named a new executive
last year, he brought back people like [Godfrey]
Kisekka and Sunday Manara…these were
the same people who caused the 2002 revolution,”
Nsubuga said.
However, KCC assistant secretary Richard
Omongole says Takuba’s high-profile
position (as deputy mayor) has benefited
the club.
“The chairman is vital… when
we hosted [Zanzibar’s] Kipanga FC;
Takuba helped us get Shs 8.9 million from
Council that purchased the tickets for referees
and match commissar. Against [Rwanda’s]
APR, he managed to get us Shs 10 million.”
KCC players have received no pay for four
months, while former KCC coach Mike Mutebi
is demanding Shs 18 million in wage arrears.
Mutebi’s successor Kenyan Hussein
Kheri is expected back from his homeland
Kenya this week.
rmadoi@ugandaobserver.com
Soccer critic Aldrine Nsubuga has foretold
KCC’s collapse in five years. The
Weekly Observer looks at some institutional
clubs that collapsed in the years gone by:
Lint Marketing Board - 1979
NIC (National Insurance) - 1981
ATM (Africa Textile Mills) - 1981
Millers - 1984
Masaka Union - 1986
Maroons (Prisons) - 1987
Tobacco (Blue Bats) - 1988
BOU (Bank of Uganda) - 1989
Nytil - 1991
Spears Motors - 1992
UCI (Uganda Cement Industry) - 1992
Uganda Airlines - 1993
Bell - 1994
UCB (Uganda Commercial Bank) - 1994
Miracle - 1995
Coffee - 1996
Works - 1996
Umeme - 1999
Posta (Post office) - 1999
UPDF - 2000
Nile - 2002
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