It’s now a week since Red pepper published the shocking pictures of former SC Villa, Bunamwaya SC (Vipers) and Uganda Cranes team manager Chris Mubiru sodomising a young man.
Furthermore reports in several corners indicate that Mubiru engaged several footballers and football administrators in the act.
It has been a rumour that this man who has been in football as player, coach and administrator since early 1980s was sodomising players but nobody had empirical evidence to pin him till Red pepper and sister paper Kamunye bravely published graphical evidence with him in the act that everyone including the writer can freely discuss the issue.
In the wake of these revelations, one question that no one has bothered to ask is; who is to blame for the sodomy acts of this man?
The first person to blame is of course Chris Mubiru given that what he did is not only a disgrace to the African culture but also condemned by God.
Besides him, another portion for the blame should be directed to the administrators that have persistently dealt with him even when rumours of Mubiru bum drilling players were ripe.
A case in point, in 2008 SC Villa fans where he (Mubiru) was manager led by a one Nakamanya openly criticised Mubiru for alleged sodomy acts on Villa players and forced him to quit Villa Park the following year.
Many of the fans involved in this were imprisoned for what was then called tarnishing Mubiru’s image with false allegations but most importantly, the sodomy king left their team.
Amazingly, the same man was welcomed at Bunamwaya SC (now Vipers SC) by the team officials where he also worked as manager in 2010 before falling out with the administrators at the club later.
Was it a right move to welcome the man accused of such un-Godly act? Your guess is as good as mine.
In 2004, it is alleged Serbian Coach Mitcho Sredojevich quit Villa Park because he believed a certain top official was sodomising his players but even when he made a report to other officials, no body managed to chase Mubiru away from the team.
Before he left, Mitcho had an interview with Daily Monitor’s Daniel Kalinaki and made it clear that a top official was sodomising his players affecting their fitness thus putting his work of training these boys to a waste.
In 2005, Egyptian Coach Muhammad Abbas called a press conference and made it clear that a certain official on the team tried to rape his players as the Cranes were preparing for a 2006 World Cup qualifier against Cape Verde which the Cranes edged 1-0 courtesy of Geoffrey Sserunkuma’s solitary strike.
Of course there was not enough evidence to incriminate Mubiru but did the officials make any effort to investigate this issue? No.
In his column in entitled “Top Ten: Sex scandals that rocked Ugandan Sports” in The Observer on February 7th 2010, veteran and respected sports scribe Hassan Badru Zziwa wrote about the Cranes sodomy scandal that Abbas had talked about in 2006 and vividly said the player Mubiru tried to rape was David Kalungi and the player had identified the rapist as Chris Mubiru. Below is what Zziwa wrote about the incident he referred to as “Chris Mubiru’s infamous massage”
“Having worked his socks off in the first of two training sessions that then national team coach Mohammed Abbas had lined up on the day, David Kalungi decided to spend the afternoon roosting in his room at the Nelson Mandela Stadium’s guesthouse.
Unknown to Kalungi, someone had allegedly crept into his room. As the pint-sized midfielder sprawled on his bed with his face fronting the mattress, he felt someone apparently massage his rear. Kalungi didn’t like what was transpiring, and so he quickly got up to tell off whoever was massaging his rear.
Kalungi claims that the man who was massaging his rear was a one Chris Mubiru – a maverick character who has struggled to fend off gay inferences in Ugandan football. The story about this sorry episode hogged the spotlight even long after Uganda had banked on Geoffrey Sserunkuma’s header to beat Cape Verde 1-0 in the 2006 World Cup/Nations Cup qualifier they had been bracing for”.
Now that the truth has finally come out thanks to Red pepper, it’s high time we fought the vice that has contributed to the loss of many a talent turning them into a waste. Can u imagine some players in the domestic topflight play while pampered just because of the infections that resulted from the act? Time is now to act. Even if it means revealing the names of those not yet unearthed, let it be done to save the young generation from associating with those people.
For God and My Country.