Apparently MPs are now ashamed of hot air bailout promises they made toward the AWOL weightlifter Julius Ssekitooleko who is fervently complaining.
The Uganda’s weightlifter Julius Ssekitooleko who made news after he disappeared from a hotel room in Tokyo during this year’s Olympic Games, has shamed the MPs as a bunch of dishonorable people.
Following his repatriation back to Uganda and incarceration, MPs led by Sports shadow minister, Godfrey Solo Kayemba promised to give Ssekitooleko money to rent a house and start a business to take care of his family.
Solo went ahead and tabled the plight of the weightlifter on the floor of parliament, whereupon the legislators enthusiastically promised to help Ssekitooleko.
But, four months later, Ssekitooleko reveals, the MP’s cash bailout remains a pipe dream!
“ I am still waiting for the cash,” Ssekitooleko opened up about the financial package promised by our MPs.
Ssekitooleko now begs the MPs to live to their honorable tag by honoring what they promised him.
“ I hereby remind and beg the MPs to help deliver the cash. I badly need the money to help me train for the forthcoming Commonwealth Games,” Ssekitooleko states.
As the MPs struggle to deliver their promise, Maama Fiina has since come clean on her promise to rent a house for the weightlifter.
” I thank Maama Fiina for honoring her cash promise. I beg the MPs to emulate Maama Fiina and honor their cash pledge too”, Ssekitooleko threw the challenge.
On July 17, six days before the Olympic Games opening ceremony in Tokyo, reports emerged that Uganda weightlifter Julius Ssekitoleko had gone missing from the team hotel, despite the coronavirus quarantine measures in place.
The East African athlete, according to reports, had left the team hotel in order to seek a new life, leaving behind his luggage and a note explaining his intention to find work, and vanished into the night.
He was found, four days later, in Yokkaichi, 105 miles (ca. 169 km) from his hotel in Izumisano, and was promptly returned to the Uganda camp and flown back to his homeland.
On July 23, one month and five days after arriving in Japan, he landed back at Entebbe airport in handcuffs, with authorities taking a dim view of his attempt to abscond while on international duty.
