Basketball in Africa

Uganda Basketball Federation (FUBA) will encourage teams to host league matches in the new season.

The move is geared at avoiding the present scenario whereby Lugogo Indoor stadium and YMCA Wandegeya courts are unavailable.
When available, FUBA has used the two venues for most of its league matches and all the playoffs. But a series of initially promising circumstances has left the body unable to utilise the courts.
The Lugogo court is due for a MTN-sponsored facelift while at Wandegeya, the situation is a lot more complicated.
The home of local basketball was meant to be reconstructed after the end of the 2008 season and some excavations had been duly made.
However, the YMCA administration became displeased with the pace and quality of the work and stopped FUBA from seeing the project through, promising instead to rebuild the court themselves.

But FUBA is not happy with the move.
"We have injected in over sh5m and we can't lose that money that is why we are still pressing YMCA to allow us complete the work," FUBA president Ambrose Tashobya explained.
"We have pledged full supervision to see that the work done is recommendable."
But with the standoff persisting, FUBA appears resigned to have clubs host league matches.

by Charles Mutebi