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MMC life member Mwesigwa Rukaari meets MMC president Lillian Busingye at the club meeting on Sunday.
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The president of the Federation of Motorsport Club in Uganda (FMU) Jimmy Akena is set to meet Mbarara Motor Club (MMC) president Lillian Busingye over what is aimed at bringing sanity and mutual understanding between the local motorsport governing body and the Mbarara based club.
There has been a long time standoff between MMC and former FMU government of outgone president Dipu Ruparelia ever since he assumed the hierarchy of the federation in 2020 which has seen Mbarara Motor Club (MMC) twice stripped off the organization rights of their own Mbarara rally 2023 and 2024.
And this has not gone well with Busingye and her club officials that saw them twice petition the decisions of the body to the higher authorities.
However, in a bid to rectify the situation with the new executive led by president elect Akena, MMC life member and MP Mbarara City North Mwesigwa Rukaari has offered to mediate between club president Busingye and the federation.
Rukaari’s announcement came during the club general meeting on Sunday in Mbarara and was greeted with supportive voices from the seating members.
“I have talked to Akena and he has welcomed the suggestion that we meet and iron out these differences because in life, it is all about harmony and peaceful living that we look up to. We shall therefore meet on Wednesday (June 12) and we are hopeful a peaceful resolution will come out,” Rukaari said.
Mwesigwa’s move comes at a time when Busingye has petitioned to the local sports federations governing body National Council of Sports (NCS) challenging the election of Akena as president, which she says is unconstitutional.
Mwesigwa Rukaari deliberates during the meeting.
Akena was elected as FMU president in a federation elective assembly on May 1, after polling 56 votes compared to former president George Kagimu (16) and driver John Burrows Lumu who managed 2 votes in a landslide for the Lila Municipality Member of Parliament.
However, in a petition Torch Media has seen , Mbarara’s Busingye contests this election and the entire executive, reasoning that the election was out of order since the electorate had not been elected from their respective clubs to delegate at the national assembly and also that the FMU tenure has expired on 3rd February 2024.
At the same meeting, a new club office was also officially opened in Mbarara for the first time in many years since the one that was housed at late Charles Muhangi’s horizon premises in Mbarara were taken over.
There was also a resolution to replace inactive executive members where Adam Kabuye and Sam Mwesigwa assumed the post of secretary and assistant secretary respectively replacing Geoffrey Nuwamnya while Faizal Ayebazibwe was voted competitions committee chairman replacing Odion Tumwebaze.
MMC members at the new club office in Mbarara.
