By Andrew Irumba
Fort Portal: Trouble is brewing between Tooro Province Football Club fans and the managers of the team, after the top management allegedly embezzled over Shs100m, part of which was money donated to the team by President Yoweri Museveni afew months ago.
Our Spies have reliably been informed that the Chairperson Tooro Province FC fans’ clubs has petitioned the Kabarole Resident District Commissioner Steven Asiimwe, beseeching him to investigate reports that the team managers pocketed money to the tune of over Shs100m, which they cannot account for.
In his petition to the RDC titled EMBEZZLEMENT OF TOORO PROVINCE FOOTBALL FUNDS’ , the Chairperson Andrew Isagara states thus;
“We write on behalf of Tooro Province Super Fans seeking your highly valued attention towards the suspected embezzlement of the Club funds amounting to slightly over Shs100m by some of the responsible Executive Committee members.
You will recall that these funds have been mobilized from different sources including but not limited to gate collections, individual donations but most importantly a donation from the President of the republic of Uganda, H. E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni worth Shs50m.”
Isagara adds that “Specific reference in this saga is directed to the signatories who withdrew the said funds from the province bank account held with Equity Bank, Fort Portal branch. When the incident was brought to the attention of the public by a whistleblower, the team Patron who also doubles as the area Member of Parliament for Fort Portal municipality Hon. Alex Ruhunda engaged an audit firm to examine the expenditures made…”
He concludes that “The purpose of this letter therefore, is to seek your intervention in designing modalities of recovering the funds in question.”
The Petition, which is also signed by Innocent Kabaseke, a member of the Club, is copied to the President Republic of Uganda, Head Anti-Corruption Unit and Inspector General of Government.
It is however not yet clear whether the RDC will act upon the petition or leave it to get swept under the carpet.
