Ssekitoleko’s dream quashed as he is deported to Uganda

By Drone Reporter 

Ugandan weightlifter Julius Sekitoleko who was reported missing from Olympic Training Camp in Osaka, Japan after missing COVID-19 test, has been deported.

“Very tough for Julius Ssekitoleko after that deportation. The image of a Japanese immigration officer glowering over him the entire flight from east Asia will haunt him for the rest of his life but the worst bit is that he now must start a new life outside sports after that ‘dream’ got quashed so decisively,” comments Seaman Jacobs Odong, one of his fans.

Derrock Hudson says, “to make matters worse his chances of making it to Europe or America in future even if it’s for private business get tainted.”

Mbu team-mates were alerted to the disappearance of Ugandan weightlifter Julius Sekitoleko when he failed to provide his COVID-19 saliva test sample as required.  Shortly after, the Ugandan Olympic Committee confirmed that the 20-year-old went missing, saying in a statement that the team was cooperating with the Osaka authorities to try and locate Sekitoleko.

When he deviated and disappeared into the Ugandan squad, he became news around the world, as no Olympic participant was allowed to leave the corona bubble under any circumstances.

But Ssekitoleko wandered out of the isolation of the training camp and disappeared.He left only a note, in which he wrote that he wanted to work in Japan and that his countrymen would take his belongings and give them to his wife at home in Uganda.

But on Tuesday he was arrested and after contacting the Ugandan embassy, ​​his identity was confirmed. According to Japanese police, he answered their questions crying and on Wednesday he boarded a plane again.  Last evening he landed in Uganda.

“All issues related to the suspected deviation from the duties he was going to Japan to perform and the disappearance from the training camp, will be handled appropriately in Uganda,” the dry embassy wrote in a statement.