“My wife divorced me when I was close to retirement and because I put all my properties in her name, I lost 3 houses, cars, money and custody of my 3 kids… I later saw my son sign for Chelsea academy and cried because we hadn’t spoken in 4–5 years.”
— Arsenal legend Emmanuel Eboué
Ninye Tabz opens up to NTV Tonight about the difficult and traumatic experiences he went through during the period he was abducted.
Interview by Sudhir Byaruhanga
@PoliceUg@KawalaRachael To make this list complete how about the @PoliceUg car driver that was in patrol in the vicinity when the late Sydney was being beaten he should be arrested for negligence
Today we laid my brother @GongodyoSidney to rest at his ancestral home in the land of the Bamasaba, in the soil that raised him, among the brave men of Mount Elgon and I am overwhelmed.
To the @piratesrugbyUG family, every teammate who shared a pitch, a dressing room or a bus journey with Sydney, the entire sports fraternity, every athlete who put on their kit and showed up, the friends who drove through the night, every Ugandan who never met Sydney but felt the weight of his loss as if they had and to everyone who made the journey to Masaba land to lay this son of the soil to rest, I THANK YOU.
Sydney lived as a unifying force and he died as one. Today we saw it with our own eyes. People of every tribe, every background, every walk of life came together to say goodbye to one man. That is who he was and that is the mark he left.
But I need to ask something of every single one of you now that the burial is done. Let us not go back to our lives as if nothing happened because Sydney's family wakes up tomorrow to an empty chair and his children grow up with a gap that can never be filled, yet the goons who did this are still out there!
Stay with the family. Stay angry. Stay loud. Keep demanding. Justice for Sydney is not a moment. It is a commitment.
We buried Sydney today. We do not bury the fight. Not today. Not ever.
#JusticeforGongodyo #BlackPirates #Masabaland #UgandaRugby #EndMobViolence
This man is one of the men that denied @GongodyoSidney the right to explain himself and hit him like he didn’t deserve to live. @PoliceUg I pray all freedom is stripped from him
There are moments in life when words feel too small for the weight of grief you carry. This is one of those moments.
Guga, we grew up sharing more than a rugby pitch. We shared blood, not just the blood of brothers in sport, but the deeper bond of our people, our tribe, our roots. You knew where I came from before I ever had to explain it. That kind of kinship is rare and I am broken knowing I will never stand beside you again.
As your Captain, I watched you carry yourself with a quiet dignity that made my job easier. You never needed me to push you, you pushed yourself.
Every scrum, every breakdown, every bruising collision, you gave everything. You were the kind of teammate who made the man beside you better and the dressing room feel like home.
But beyond the jersey and the titles we won together, you were simply my young brother. The laughter, long journeys and conversations that only made sense to us, I will hold those close for the rest of my days.
The Black Pirates will run out again, but there will always be a space on that field that belongs only to you, Gongodyo. No one will fill it.
Now rest well Guga. I love you ❤️
#RIPGongodyo #RIPSydney
#PiratesStrong #UgandaRugby