A Table Tennis playing Arena can be as simple as that one shown. And this cannot cost us more than 500 million Ugx to Construct. If we decided to add some places for Spectators to sit, then the total cost would be around 800 million to maximum 1 billion Ugx. We can resolve the spports Infrastructure challenge both in the Short Term and in the Medium or Long Term.
One thing for sure is that we cannot afford to leave our Sports dreams only to the Long Term solutions like until when Namboole or Nakivubo stadiums are finished. We have many simpler short term solutions that can quickly solve this infrastructure challenge in just about 4 – 6 months.
A mere 40 billion Ugx can resolve infrastructure challenges for over 40 Sports Federations within just 4 – 6 months as we wait for the longer term solutions that take several years to accomplish. The thing is that we have Athletes who need the infrastructure as soon as yesterday.
Telling them to wait for 5 or 10 years is the same as killing off their Sporting Careers. Just imagine 98 billion was released for Namboole but it is still un-usable and there is a request for an additional 190 billion Ugx to complete it.
Therefore isn’t it better to first release a mere 40 billion Ugx to save our Athletes’ careers by building quick and very nice Arenas like the one above which can be accomplished in just 4 – 6 months..??
Secondly the very costly Stadiums being fronted right now are top class competition Arenas, which is fine. But our Federations right now need permanent homes urgently. They need places where Athletes can train un-interrupted. So why can’t we have both the Homes of the Federations that are easier, cheaper and faster to acquire and then also the more expensive Competition stadiums that require lots of time to complete?
