Former Federation of Uganda Football Association (FUFA) Vice President Mujib Kasule has condemned the November 14th raid at FUFA house by section of former Uganda players where property of unknown value was destroyed.

In an interview with soka25east.com the former KCC FC and Uganda Cranes player expressed his concerns stating that the move was ill advised and regretable.

“I condemn, in the strongest terms, the vandalizing of FUFA property, or any other property, by these ex internationals. It was sad, ill-advised and for those of us to whom Football is our life, very regrettable,”said the ex-Cranes player.

Mujib Kasule who also serves as the director of Uganda premiership side Proline FC called upon his fellow ex-internationals to try and come up with a structured way inorder to address the matter.

“In any case, I don’t think that approach will yield anything for them other than ridicule from many quarters. I believe in sensible ways of attacking issues, one can be aggressive in many other ways other than physically.”,he added.

However,the former international player insisted that the football fraternity in Uganda need to urgently come with a solution on issues  raised by the players for the good of the game.

“We have to ask ourselves, what made them do this? What drove hitherto peaceful people like Simulala [As Semwogerere is affectionately known], Ssekatawa and Obwiny [who is on the current FUFA technical Committee] go down this route?

“As the football industry, we need to ask and answer these questions. As a person who knows these former players, I can’t jump on the ‘blame’ bandwagon just yet. Iam more interested in the reasons why they did what they did. Yes, it was bad. Like I said earlier, ill advised, wrong approach but I hardly believe we should sweep the underlying implications under the rag of condemnation!”,he said.

As a remedy to solve such incidents in future Mujib Kasule has called upon the goverment and football insitutions in the country to come up with ways of helping both current and ex-players and nuture them during and after their careers so to prepare them for the future.

“I have always stated that the game/Industry has a duty to the players. Both Current and Ex-players. The industry has an obligation to teach them. To nurture them. To help them both during and after their career. Save for a few, as is with every situation, to most of these players, football is the only thing they know”.

Additional Reporting:Ronnie Lusulire