On Tuesday this week, KCCA FC introduced an electronic method of verifying match day tickets in order to arrest duplication and stabilize club income from the games.
The system easily detects forged tickets and the game against The Saints on Tuesday gave club administrators a hint that they could have been losing lots of money through forgery.
Jorum Mujungu was arrested by authorities at the club on Tuesday after he stole a booklet of tickets and started selling them to fans at a discounted price around Shoprite, Lugogo.
“It is not going to be easy for people to beat our systems and I advise them to desist from any acts involving the club’s funds and assets,” club chairman Julius Kabugo warned as the authority paraded Mujungu at City Hall Wednesday afternoon.
Mujungu is said to have stolen tickets from the club’s central division branch and by the time he was arrested, he had sold 85 tickets from one of the 6 stolen booklets.
“We were alerted about the tickets and flagged them out of our system. This made it easy for us to get Mujungu because the fans exposed him and we arrested him,” Kabugo revealed.
Kabugo emphasizes that the club will not change its system of ticket allocation as it makes it easy for the fans to plan ahead of the games and avoid commotion at the gate on match day.
“The idea is to make it easy for our fans to access the stadium in the shortest time possible so we shall keep the tickets closer to them,” Kawempe, Nakawa, Kalerwe, Makindye and Kampala central are some of the branches through which KCCA FC sells tickets to the fans.
SSP Kituuma Rusoke, head of security at KCCA, revealed that what Mujungu did is not only criminal but also dangerous to the lives of those watching the match on a given day.
“There are many problems that could arise from such dirty acts,” Rusoke told Kawowo Sports before alluding to the recent incident at Namboole stadium when Uganda defeated Comoros to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time in nearly 40 years.
“You recently saw what happened in Namboole. There is a possibility that that surge of numbers was because some of the entrants were entering using forged tickets,” he noted.
KCCA is now set to present Mujungu to the courts of law to let the law take its course on him.