Swalley Kenyi
7 November 2009
Kampala — STATE sports minister Charles Bakkabulindi has revealed that his ministry is drafting rules that would restrict aggrieved persons in sports to arbitration rather than courts of law.
Bakkabulindi's pronouncement came after FUFA president Lawrence Mulindwa asked government to stop disgruntled stakeholders from going to courts of law.
Although he has had several boardroom meetings with the agrieved parties before, it was the first time he spoke publically.
FUFA led by Mulindwa has recently found itself battling a sequence of court cases ranging from electoral disagreements to allegations of financial mismanagement.
"As government we are going to come out with strong measures to empower the local federations in running their associations. This is in a bid to drag them out of courts of law," Bakkabulindi said as he cited cases involving Pro-line Academy and Mbale District Football Association filed against FUFA in the last two months. Both cases were finally addressed out of court.
Bakkabulindi made the comments while inaugurating newly constructed dressing rooms for the Uganda Netball Federation at Nakivubo stadium on Friday.
He said that taking sports matters to courts of law undermines its purpose adding that it retards development of games.
The minister could not say when the rules would be ready for implimentation.
One of Express FC directors Kavuma Kabenge, who has an impending court case against FUFA, recently blamed Bakkabulindi for failing to institute rules that would give sports federations and associations legal existence.
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