The Uganda Rugby Union (URU) technical committee held an emergency meeting last evening to choose a coach for the Rugby Cranes 7s team. In a stormy special general assembly at Kyadondo Rugby Club on Tuesday, Kampala Rugby Union Football Club (KRUFC), executive members Sam Ahamya, brothers John and Henry Musoke and Steven ‘Foxy’ Ojambo were suspended from the sport pending an independent probe.
The quartet is accused of not being transparent in the sale of the club’s land at Lugogo. URU says the trio has failed to disclose members of the club that passed a resolution to sell off the land and thereafter purchase another piece of land in Luzira.
The land is registered under a private limited company, Kampala Rugby Club.
The four are also accused of failing to account for the sh3.6bn that was realized from the transactions of the KRUFC properties.
In a stormy meeting, both KRUFC secretary Ahamya and Treasurer John Musoke declined to name their members arguing that KRUFC is a member of URU by virtue of providing a facility and therefore URU has no grounds to force them to reveal their members.
Rugby Manager Yayiro Kasasa stated, “I was a member of Kampala till 2007 and these are my membership cards,” he said as he flashed them. “But I know nothing about the sale. So, what are they hiding?” he told allafrica.com
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