Ogwel flags off Bombers workforce to Africa Boxing Championship

David GOMBE

Nationwide Council of Sports activities (NCS) Basic Secretary Dr. Bernard Patrick Ogwel has flagged off the Uganda Bombers workforce to Kenya for the Africa Boxing Championship.

The 28-member contingent will journey to Kenya by bus and can compete in opposition to 35 nations on the continental showpiece.

Ogwel flagged off the workforce, which has 18 boxers, at Copper Chimney in Lugogo at an occasion attended by Uganda Boxing Federation President Moses Muhangi.

Ogwel praised the UBF president and boxers for staying energetic regardless of challenges.

“I wish to thank the Boxing Federation president for selling the sport of boxing amidst all of the challenges. I wish to thanks notably for making the boxers busy by giving them what to do,” he acknowledged.

Travelling Workforce:

Males’s Squad

– Bruno Kakande – Flyweight (50kg)
– Samuel Nsubuga – Bantamweight
– Khassim Mulungi – Light-weight (60kg)
– Harmless Amoko – Welterweight (65kg)
– Ukasha Matovu – Gentle Middleweight (70kg)
– Alfred Ojok – Middleweight (75kg)
– Richard Kasuja – Gentle Heavyweight (80kg)
– Arafat Kibirige – Cruiserweight (85kg)
– Ringo Aziiz – Heavyweight (90kg)
– Emmanuel Tabule – Tremendous Heavyweight (90kg+)

Girls’s Squad

– Rashida Nakawoza – Gentle Flyweight (48kg)
– Brendah Muduwa – Flyweight (51kg)
– Peninah Amoding – Bantamweight (54kg)
– Vanessa Nagawa – Featherweight (57kg)
– Fatuma Nabikolo – Light-weight (60kg)
– Erina Namutebi – Welterweight (65kg)
– Diana Atwine – Heavyweight (81kg)

Officers

Lawrence Kalyango (Head Coach), Akram Ssenvewo, Eric Nyeko, Ramadhan Sseguya, Hassan Abdu Asuni, Phillip Munaabi (UBF Official), Ibrahim Sekiziyu, Phiona Nayebare, Keneth Ruyondo, Isma Mbabazi (Media attache)

Referees:Stephen Tulibagenyi, Ronald Samuel Kasirye