FUFA Chief Executive Officer Edgar Watson has said the federation did not receive a court order putting an injunction on issues to do with the national league before they withdrew the mandate from the Uganda Super League Limited (USLL).
But the USLL lawyer, Mulema Mukasa said he served the FUFA lawyer Bazirengedde Muhamadi with his clients’ notice. The wrangles between FUFA and USLL took a new turn on Wednesday when the federation withdrew the league management mandate. USLL had however secured an interim court injunction blocking FUFA actions earlier in the day. The injunction runs till February 29th when the two parties will appear in court.
Richard Omongole of Omongole and Company Advocates told URN that so long as it was not an interim order from court, then FUFA acted within their powers to remove USLL’s mandate to run the league. Omongole was also chairman of the Jinja Declaration when the USLL was being formed.
Geoffrey Nsamba, another lawyer well versed with football matters also said if it was not a court order, then there is no way it was binding. Nsamba however added that these FUFA-USLL cases in court will have so many implications to football in this country.
USLL is the separate body that was mandated two years ago to run the League in Uganda. After almost two months of wrangling between the two parties, the federation on Wednesday made the decision to withdraw the mandate.
Meanwhile, three FUFA members including the president Lawrence Mulindwa return to court on Friday to hear the case in which Dennis Mbidde, a member of a pressure group Save Our Soccer sued them for tampering with the FUFA constitution among other things.
Last month the FUFA lawyers questioned whether Mbidde had the mandate to take the federation to court yet he was not a delegate of the General Assembly. Court is expected to make the ruling.
