It was meant to be the main attraction than just change of name from Bunamwaya SC to Vipers FC. The administrators at the club couldn’t stop talking about it and so the media took their word and informed the public.
At first, his identity remained a secret but a few days to the ceremony dubbed the “Mega launch” at the team’s home ground in Buikwe, club officials revealed the identity of the so called Nigerian Coach
“AMBROSE DULU CHIKUMA”.
Come D-day (Sunday), all roads led to Buikwe to witness the unveiling of the club’s first foreign coach in the club’s history. Everything went as planned until the time to unveil the expatriate from the land of “Ogas” arrived.
Eager and excited to see the new coach, the announcement was that the Coach couldn’t manage to touch down at Entebbe airport in time for the mega launch. At that time, they tried calling phone lines of the coach’s agent whose phones were off and therefore failed to give a genuine reason to the over 8,000 people available.
However, according to reports, this Nigerian arrived in the country on Monday last week and had successfully held talks with club officials by Tuesday evening.
He left the country on Wednesday to officially communicate his new destination and was meant to return to Uganda on Saturday and then be unveiled to the players, media, fans and the general public.
It never happened but the hopes were still alive even after a communication that he didn’t arrive in time. At Kawowo Sports, we tried as usual to research about Chikuma but nowhere, not even in his homeland Nigeria is his name known in the football circles.
