By Our reporter
09th Nov 2023
President Yoweri Museveni has urged athletes to focus on discipline in their active sports careers.
Museveni made the appeal while hosting a group of athletes at a luncheon at State House Entebbe.
The athletes include those who participated in the World Athletics Championships in Budapest-Hungary and National School Teams that participated in the Federation of East Africa Secondary Schools Sports Association (FEASSSA).
The President cautioned the athletes to avoid alcohol and prostitution because they will ruin their sports careers. “Alcohol, prostitution, fighting, and all that, don’t go well with sports and they can ruin your life. Sports must go with discipline and the fear of the Lord, then your future will be bright,” He said.
Museveni congratulated the teams and said that the government will support the sports sector and individual performers. He reminded them that State House approved a monthly stipend of Shs5m for a gold medal winner, silver medal Shs3m, and Shs 1million for a bronze winner.
The President also promised that the beneficiaries that have since missed out on the offer ever since it was put in place will receive their full payments.
He further reiterated his call to attach personalities who are doing well in sports to the prisons, police, army, and Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), saying that this would help them to have an address and a small salary, before promising that the government was going to allocate a bus to each sports zone in the country.
The Minister of Education and Sports Janet Museveni lauded the sportsmen and women for bringing great pride to Uganda.
The World Athletics Championship hosted 195 countries and Uganda was ranked 11th out of the 39 countries that won medals.
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