Why Hon Charles Bakabulindi Could Be The Worst Ugandan Minister Uganda Has Ever Had

Why Hon Charles Bakabulindi Could Be The Worst Ugandan Minister Uganda Has Ever Had

Hon Bakka openly said that he was very happy with the 2016  Rio Olympics Ugandan performance even when Uganda did not win a singe medal and had the rare feat of fielding a boxer called Kenneth Katende who was regarded by the English tabloid The Daily Mail as the most unfit in the history of Olympic boxing! 

During my formative years,  in the early nineties , a  football player in our neighborhood used to take me with him to Lugogo to watch a training session of  a team called Bell Fc.

At that time I had not developed strong bones to play with the big lads in super division clubs, but I had the enthusiasm to go to training ground to watch super division clubs train.

At times we would go to Villa Park to watch the great Paul Hasule and group training. On other occasions we went to Lugogo to watch the kasasiro boys.

But my colleague used to play with bell fc that used to train across the road of Lugogo, at the current Kyadondo rugby grounds.

So my friend would train there as we lazed around with other kids. There was a man that used to attend every single training session who would lean on his motor bike.

That fellow used to scream every time a good move was made. He was such a strong fan of that Bell team.  We never used to pay attention to him but he was too noisy to be ignored.

So recently when I met my colleague (the former BELL fc PLAYER)) we started discussing Uganda football and its predicament.

I questioned why president Museveni was not appointing someone with some firsthand knowledge about football.

But my colleague quickly reminded me that current sports minister (Charles Bakabulindi) was very conversant with football matters.

I asked him why he thought Bakka was conversant with Ugandan football and he told me that Bakka was the man who used to make noise on the motor bike during the training sessions at bell fc!

Ohh , Phew!

Now, my reaction was, why should a man who has got firsthand knowledge about Ugandan football preside over the death of the sport in the country?

To the best of my knowledge I always thought that Bakka knew nothing about the game at all. I thought his was just a mere political appointment.

So he enjoyed the benefit of doubt because we thought he was clueless about what it takes to build a sports structure in the country.

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Last week Hon Bakabulindi was hosted on NTV to discuss the aftermath of the historic cranes feat of beating Comoros and qualifying for the AFCON after failing for the last 39 years.

And that talk-show really exposed how shallow and intellectually bankrupt Bakka was in regard to matters regarding the sports ministry he has run for decades.

One of the hurting episodes in the show was the question regarding the sports facilities that have been sold during his reign as sports minister.

He was asked why he never intervened to protect the sports ground that have been converted into shopping malls. He simply answered that there is division of labor in government and that his ministry was not in charge of any sports ground in the country!

He said that it was the local government ministry that was in charge of all those sports facilities.

Okay granted; now if you are not in charge of sports facilities in the country, how do you expect to run sports in the country?

The host Mr. Charles Mwangusya also asked Mr. Bakka why government was licensing schools that don’t have sports grounds as stipulated by law.

The practically intransigent Bakka answered that he had no powers of stopping the education ministry from licensing schools that did not meet the requirement that would promote sports in the country.

He was also asked what measures he had taken to promote sports in the country and he unashamedly said that his ministry was rewarding all sportsmen who were excelling in the different sports disciplines.

The panelists went on to ask a pertinent question that what was the role of the government in grooming the sportsmen who had excelled?

He had no answer, but went on to make a lot of noise by justifying the unjustifiable.

To make the short story even shorter, it was evident that Hon Bakka had no vision for sports ministry in the country.

Hon Bakka seems to be ignorant of the fact that the ministry he holds is so sensitive to the citizens of his country.

He is ignorant about the joy and unifying factor that sports plays in the country.

He is even ignorant about the jobs that can be created by the sports sector.

If Bakka is not in charge of schools which nurture the future citizens of this country, and is not in charge of the sports facilities where sportsmen are groomed then his ministry is practically useless.

Bakka himself conceded that he is not in charge of anything related to the sports industry.

If a minister of health is not in charge of hospitals then what is the use of having hi there?.

Bakka should resign to pave way to someone who can claim what belongs to the sports industry.

Alternatively he can seek for advice from sportsmen to find ways of changing this pathetic trend of sports in the country.

Bakka always claims that he is fought by his political enemies. He is using sympathy as a tool to protect himself from accountability of the sports ministry he runs.

But Ugandans deserve more than this. We need a revolution in the sports sector that will produce successful sportsmen and women in this country.

Bakka is practically contented with having thousands of unsuccessful sportsmen and women.

He even said that he was very happy with the performance of the Ugandan athletes at the Rio 2016 Olympics despite of the fact that Uganda registered no single medal!

Uganda fielded a total of 17 athletes (11 men and 6 women), in the 2016 Olympics but registered zero gold, silver or bronze medals.

Ugandan boxer Keneth Katende was named the most unfit athlete at 2016 Rio Olympics

Yet Kenya managed to win so many medals but the entire sports sector was overhauled.

But Hon Bakka openly said that he was very happy with the performance even when Uganda had the rare feat of fielding a boxer called Kenneth Katende who was later regarded by the English tabloid The Daily Mail as the most unfit in the history of Olympic boxing!  

If I was near this Bakka man, I would have poked him with a stick!

This man needs nothing but condemnation by all sports loving countrymen. He is very arrogant and lacks etiquette.  He clearly doesn’t understand his duties and is simply riding on the gullibility of Ugandans.

I have not seen any Ugandan minister who is as incompetent and clues less as Hon Charles Bakabulindi.

The author Fred Daka Kamwada is a journalist and a blogger. He appears on radio and television talk-shows chat him at kamwadafred@yahoo.com