The Uganda Secondary Schools Sports Association (USSSA) Mbarara City Schools Championship has been moved from the usual hosting grounds of Kakyeka to Makenke Army Barracks.
According to the schools’ sports organizers in the area, the decision was reached by the schools’ heads, sports teachers, and city security personnel in a meeting held recently after skirmishes between students from different schools.
St. Joseph’s vocational school, Nyamitanga grounds, has been named as a second hosting venue for its distance from the centre of the city, which will not allow many fans to walk there.
There will also be no students allowed to access the games venue as per the ministry of education and sports guidelines on the resumption of sports due to the COVID-19 restrictions, and all those that will be allowed to access the venues will be asked to come in school uniform.
At a planning meeting on Wednesday afternoon at Nyamitanga Moslem SS, the sports teachers agreed to comply with the resolutions as a way of having these games go on without fights, as has been witnessed before.
The change of venue comes as a result of the hooliganism exhibited by Mbarara SS students during the Zone championships, where they attacked Ntare school in which clashes, a Ntare student, Mesach Muhumuza, was injured and ended up undergoing brain surgery at Mbarara Referral Hospital.
Yunus Buwemboe, the Mbarara city Schools sports association general secretary called on all school games teachers to implement the regulations.