The Hon. state minister for sports Hamson Denis Obua officially opened the Uganda secondary schools sports association (USSSA) National offices at GNS building level two , room 28 Old Kampala opposite Gadaffi national mosque today Friday 21st February 2020.
The ceremony also honors the Minister for youth and vice president of FUFA Hon. Nakiwala kiyingi, General Secretary National council of sports, Mr. David Katende, higher common isomer of Ministry of education and sports and FESSSA President.
The offices opened today is to work for USSSA, and FEASSS work and among others.
While the Hon. state minister for sport Hamson Obua opened the symposium advised the head teachers, coaches and sports masters to focus on three things to develop the sport.
“Altitude, ability and motivation is the key to develop our sports, motivation is determined what to do usually in sport and during our time in school we usually take sport as leisure time but now sports is for income generation.
We must guide our young players to wake up their talents, mission and vision”, Hon Obua Hamson advised.
” The big challenges of sports in Uganda is taxation, because recently I got a challenge of PAra- Olympian their goods was caught at the airport and they come to me to help but the problem my hands was tied by the law, so am working very hard to see that the sports should be exempt from taxation”, Hon. Obua promised.
“Funding requires the attention of infrastructures leaders of secondary schools must be proactive for searching up sponsors but we are in struggle to get raw materials and financial assistance for sport.
We need time to build infrastructures and welcomed all international federations who can help us to build sports infrastructures, and also a problem of to have land title is also the most valuable source we must first acquire land title to build”,Hon Minister added.
Mr. Obua also told the USSSA officials to eager for more sponsors part from Coca cola and fresh dairy, because the government has little money to facility all the challenges that faced the all federation sports.
However, the President of Uganda secondary schools sports association Patrick Okanya appreciate the symposium because it helps them so much.
“This symposium helps so much because it gives as an opportunity to have two ministers and now they knows our requirements and now we want to get more sponsors because sponsors knows now where we are located, and we also we want to add more sports like boxing , Athletes, beach football for the each students to get a chance to participate at least in a sport”, Patrick Okanya insisted.
Uganda secondary schools sports association (USSSA), it is the association that governs all the sports discipline in the secondary schools and has boosted more talents of the students and some at are on national teams so, it works as multi- layers of the federations.
The association of USSSA started in 1982 and it was purely in Kampala and now is at whole the country.
