By News Room
6th Feb 2023
The war of words between Sarah Babirye Kityo, the president of the Uganda Netball Federation-UNF, and Dr. Patrick Ogwel, the General Secretary of the National Council of Sports -NCS General is far from over.
Kityo has made fresh allegations accusing Ogwel of asking for kickbacks whenever disbursing funds to facilitate the National netball team.
Addressing journalists at the Uganda Netball Federation head offices in Kampala on Monday, Kityo said the NCS boss has been repeatedly asking for kickbacks from their federation whenever he is allocating funds to the National team, She Cranes.
She cited their trip to South Africa in 2021 for the Male Netball Championship where Ogwel reportedly demanded a kickback of Shillings 40 out of the Shillings 100 million allocated for the championship.
According to Kityo, although the federation’s top leadership agreed not to pay the kickback, the vice president, Richard Muhumuza, and General Secretary, Amina Mande defied the resolution and paid Dr. Ogwel Shillings 30 million, which was supposed to cover the player’s allowances.
Kityo says that she couldn’t have any of this and approached Ogwel to query about the money.
She says that Ogwel denied the claims that he had pocketed the money and threatened to open a defamation case against Muhumuza and Mande, which he didn’t do.
According to Kityo, he wrote to Ogwel on September 24, 2021, about the same money but he didn’t reply.
In the same development, Kityo accused Ogwel of failing to provide any funding to the Netball Federation this financial year on grounds that they failed to account for funding they received in the previous financial year.
This cost the team multiple international events, including the World Cup qualifiers.
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