Boxers get some food ![]()
STRANDED: Ugandans in Nairobi have saved the Bombers
By william muwonge and Reuben Olita
THE national boxing team that has been stranded in Nairobi for three days, can now afford to have food.
This follows a fundraising mission masterminded by the Ugandan community in Nairobi last evening.
The Bombers are in Kenya for the week-long Africa Zone 5 tournament, a qualifier for the Africa Championship in Morocco next month.
At a hastily convened meeting, sh1.2m had been raised by press time to cater for the Bombers� immediate needs, top of which is food and accommodation.
�The boxers can now fight with relaxed minds. Their condition before was pathetic,� a source at the meeting said.
The source said the team was due to be moved to a decent hotel. The boxers were staying in a lodge in the shanty River Road.
Interestingly , a Uganda High Commission official in Nairobi said they could not help the boxers because according to him, the team were in Kenya �without NCS approval�.
Didas Twine claimed the boxers had not been cleared by NCS to take part in the event.
� There is no money and if there is no money there is no money,� Twine said.
Boxing official Sande Musoke was not bothered. �What we want is only food and accommodation and other things can take care of themselves,� he said.Published on: Tuesday, 12th April, 2005
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