Mandela Group commended for supporting sports
Thank you. Vice Consul at the Canadian Consulate Rubanga Kaggwa (right) shakes hands with Mandela Group marketing manager Herbert Bashaasha. On the left is Under Secretary in the Ministry of Education and Sports Aggrey Kibenge. PHOTO BY ISMAIL KEZAALA
What you need to know:
- Yesterday, Kibenge was a guest at the Mandela Group school fees draw where 34 lucky winners were picked.
- But he reminisced how he had been at the company’s premises for several sports-related events and in particular football sponsorships.
Kampala. For more than a decade, Mandela Group has been at the forefront of promoting education and sports.
Through different initiatives like the City Tyres U-14 football tournament at the beginning of the millennium, many budding footballers who excelled in the tournament went on to be awarded bursaries in schools.
City Oil, a subsidiary of Mandela Group, owns and bankrolls City Oilers, Uganda’s best basketball team, currently. City Tyres funds national and school badminton and chess tournaments. Aggrey Kibenge, the Under secretary in the Ministry of Education and Sports, has dealt with Mandela Group since the City Tyres-Friends of Football (FoF) days.
And if there is anyone that knows the value of education and sports, it is Kibenge. Afterall, the two fall under his ministry.
Yesterday, Kibenge was a guest at the Mandela Group school fees draw where 34 lucky winners were picked.
But he reminisced how he had been at the company’s premises for several sports-related events and in particular football sponsorships.
“For many years, Mandela Group has been one of the go-to companies when it comes to sponsoring sports events. Now they are paying school fees for lucky students. So, let us keep supporting Mandela Group because it is also supporting the most important sectors in Uganda including transport plus education and sports,” he said.
Sarah Rubanga Kaggwa, the Honorary Vice consul at the Canadian Consulate, echoed Kibenge’s remarks.
“These days if you are not educated, at least you should be doing sports. The sports industry is proving to be very important as it is a sure way of earning money.”
