President Yoweri Museveni on Sunday, 18 August 2024 formally opened the twenty first Edition of the Federation of East Africa Secondary Schools Sports Association (FEASSA) Games.
The video games, which can run as much as 27 August 2024 are being hosted by Bukedea Comprehensive School and Amus College School in Bukedea District, making it the seventh time Uganda is internet hosting these intercontinental secondary video games.
This 12 months’s FEASSA Games have introduced collectively over 3,000 members from Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi and South Sudan.
While on the launch of the video games, which additionally marked the official commissioning of Bukedea Comprehensive Sports Park, a multipurpose sports activities stadium constructed by Speaker Anita Among, President Museveni recommended the Speaker for being industrious and developmental, thus selling the native economic system.
He urged different leaders to emulate her good and exemplary deeds to achieve regional improvement.
“I wish to thank the Rt Hon. Anita Among who developed this stadium at an affordable price and rapidly. This ought to serve for instance for different areas to emulate in order that they’ll develop stadiums in different components of the nation,” Museveni mentioned.
Museveni re-echoed the Speaker as instrumental in bridging the hole between the manager and legislature.
“I’m very proud of what Rt Hon. Anita Among has accomplished. There is much less friction in Parliament, between Parliament and the Executive and as you possibly can see, she may be very energetic within the space right here,” Museveni mentioned, including that he discovered her a fast learner and an energetic particular person.
To the younger athletes, Museveni urged them to take sports activities as a supply of livelihood.
“Do not be diverted into solely considering of issues in Europe and neglect about your individual future…The East African integration isn’t just about sports activities. It’s a difficulty of livelihood,” he mentioned.
Among appreciated the President’s dedication to sustainable progress and improvement together with the promotion of sports activities.
” Sports is certainly a common language which allows members to know one another no matter the place they arrive from, how they seem like or what they consider in,” Among mentioned.
State Minister for Sports, Hon. Peter Ogwang suggested the athletes to desist from participating in acts that undermine the spirit of sportsmanship and honest play.
President Museveni later proceeded to Kongunga Primary School in Kachumbala County the place he addressed a rally.
The Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa, a number of Ministers, Members of Parliament and the enterprise group have been in attendance.
