The lack of infrastructure remains one of the main obstacles to the development of sport in the country.
The failure to improve existing structures also remains a major deterrent, as members of the Education and Sports Committee discovered on Tuesday.
This was after doing a familiarization tour of the National Sports Council (NCS) facilities in Lugogo.
“There is a need to increase the amount of funding per sport as well as improve the existing sport law. From this tour, we realized that the sports facilities and association offices are in a sorry state. Something urgent needs to be resolved, ”noted Entebbe Municipality MP Michael Kakembo Mbwatekamwa.
NCS Secretary General Bernard Ogwel hopes the visit will help advance the subsector’s calls for increased funding.
“Seeing is believing and I am very confident that members of Parliament, in particular those of the Committee on Education and Sports, are now well aware of the state of play of the sports facilities of the National Sports Council,” said noted Ogwel.
Hon. Abigaba G. Mirembe, Shadow Minister of Sports and Member of Parliament for Bukomansibi, Hon. Geofrey Kayemba Ssolo, chaired the 16-member Committee
“We have made several justifications for the upgrade and renovation of this facility, which is the only indoor sports complex in the country.
Like the Hon. Tibasiimwa Joram (Western Uganda Elderly Representative in Parliament), who visited this place in 1966, has since said that there has never been any improvement since then, ”Ogwel added .
The sports budget currently stands at Shs26b, but has been reduced to Shs17b due to Covid-19.
Last year, the National Sports Council (NCS) said it needed Shs196b to effectively fund all associations that depend on it.
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