The Buganda Road Court on Tuesday issued criminal summons for Federation of Uganda Football Association President Lawrence Mulindwa, the CEO Edgar Watson and Chairman FUFA Standing Legal Committee Muhamadi Bazirengende.
According to the summons, the trio is expected to appear in court on January 24 to answer charges of making documents without authority, forgery, making false documents, fraud and breach of trust.
The complainant, Mbidde Dennis Ssebugwawo, a member of Save Our Soccer (SOS), the three FUFA officials respectively prepared or caused to prepare, signed/or executed a purported amended constitution of FUFA 2010 and presented it for registration. Thereafter, the trio presented the document to the public as the authentic amended FUFA constitution 2010.
SOS is a body that fights for the good governance and development of football in the country.
Mbidde adds that the purported amended Constitution contains provisions that members/and or the public were never notified of in the proposed amendments and other articles/clauses that were never approved for amendment.
The complainant said the three FUFA officials completely distorted what was approved by the General Assembly, ignored to include the approved provisions in the amended constitution and went ahead to smuggle in their desired but unapproved clauses into the amended document.
The criminal summons follow a tactical move by Uganda Super League (USL) who reportedly also sent a document to the world Football body FIFA last week questioning how FUFA included certain things in the constitution without being approved by the General Assembly.
USL, the body that runs the national football league, and FUFA have been at loggerheads lately to the extent that the USL chairman Kavuma Kabenge and the CEO Ebil Ssegawa were summoned to appear before a disciplinary Committee on January 13. The two, however, refused to appear.
When URN tried to contact FUFA spokesman Rogers Mulindwa and the Federation CEO Watson about the matter and what they think about the summons, none of the two was picking his mobile phones.
