ISABIRYE SHAFIQUE

Eccedentesiast,Just focusing on me until focus is on me.
Passionate about IT, football lover⚽, @KCCAFC, GGMU, Leo Messi10 diehard 🥰

[D.Dorothy Nalumansi @DorothyWillz]

One of the footsoldiers Paul was locked up in his house, the door sealed with nails and the house set ablaze.

Neighbours rescued him and rushed to hospital and he remains under critical condition. We need to support him through this difficult time.

[BOBI WINE @HEBobiwine]

According to this report by experts from Mulago Hospital that is circulating online, Dr. Besigye is still unable to talk or write since he collapsed in court over 3 weeks ago. Despite receiving the report, and in Dr. Besigye's continued absence, the presiding Judge Baguma Emmanuel insisted on hearing testimony from the regime's mercenary-witnesses against a man who is clearly unfit to stand trial!

The regime is determined to fulfill its promise that Dr. Besigye will only leave prison in a coffin, and Baguma is more than eager to facilitate his execution! With this brazen regime capture of the institutions supposed to protect justice, the responsibility falls on all of us as citizens to CONFRONT and REJECT the injustice using every lawful means at our disposal.

[ISABIRYE SHAFIQUE @ficque_ug]

kumanyoko

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

🚨 Our first starting XI of the #PL season is in! 👊

COME ON UNITED! 🗣️

[ISABIRYE SHAFIQUE @ficque_ug]

@Fayth_Bryllyan not the way you love chaos someone is giving you a dose for your own medicine 😂😂

[David Lewis Rubongoya @DavidLRubongoya]

An inimitable communicator.
Principled. Blunt. Articulate.
A family man. An amiable friend.
347 days in detention without trial.
An embodiment of tragic fortitude.
Following the loss of his dear wife.
Facing all this for no crime whatsoever. Except working for a better Uganda.

#FreeAlexWaiswaMufumbiro

[Allan Okello @AllanOkello8]

Asante sana Timu ya Wananchi @YoungAfricansSC 🙏🏿

#YangaBingwa 💚💛

[David Lewis Rubongoya @DavidLRubongoya]

A gentle giant.
Disciplined. Humble. Kind.
545 days in detention without trial.
For no crime whatsoever.
Except believing
That Uganda deserves better!

#FreeAchileoKivumbi
#FreeAllPoliticalPrisonersinUganda

[OMUTEGEKE | 🇺🇬🎙️ @CliveKyazze]

The ongoing exchange between Moses Magogo and Asan Kasingye on who is not doing their job to promote Ugandan football comes against a familiar background.

In the past, Ugandan sports journalists have repeatedly been criticised for giving more attention to the English Premier League and European football than to the local game.

That criticism, however, often ignores how aggressively foreign football sells itself.

Every single day, I receive emails from the Premier League, UEFA and FIFA, alongside newsletters and updates from different clubs across Europe and beyond.

They are constantly feeding journalists with fixtures, statistics, interviews, photographs, videos, milestones, historical records and potential storylines.

They deliberately make their competitions difficult to ignore. You cannot say the same about the local game.

How many Ugandan clubs regularly send journalists newsletters?

How often does the league proactively distribute player statistics, injury updates, historical records, quality photographs, interviews or interesting numbers ahead of a weekend of fixtures?

Sometimes journalists have to chase basic information that should already be readily available.

That matters because sports coverage does not begin when the referee blows the whistle. The biggest leagues understand that the conversation must continue every day between matches.

They create stories around players, rivalries, records, anniversaries, transfers and personalities, then put that information directly into the hands of journalists.

Our local football administrators cannot remain quiet for most of the week and then complain that Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool or Real Madrid are dominating the sports pages and airwaves.

Journalists certainly have a responsibility to tell Ugandan stories, and we should always challenge ourselves to do more.

But the media cannot become the marketing and communications department of the league.

If you want journalists to talk about your product, give them something to talk about CONSISTENTLY.

Foreign football is not necessarily receiving more coverage because Ugandan journalists love it more.

It is receiving more coverage because those running it have mastered the art of keeping their product permanently in our faces.

The local game must learn to do the same.

#CKSports

[David Lewis Rubongoya @DavidLRubongoya]

480 days.
In detention.
Without trial.
For no crime whatsoever.
Except daring to dream.
That Uganda deserves better.
#FreeEddieMutwe

[ISABIRYE SHAFIQUE @ficque_ug]

@Fayth_Bryllyan the one of rings and blabla 😂😂

[ISABIRYE SHAFIQUE @ficque_ug]

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[Irene Ntale K @Irenentale]

This Friday, we’re ALL showing up and showing out for Vinka at Vinka Loud in Concert at Lugogo!! 🔥🔥

Miss it at your own risk! 😌🎶

[Irene Ntale K @Irenentale]

This Friday, we’re ALL showing up and showing out for Vinka at Vinka Loud in Concert at Lugogo!! 🔥🔥

Miss it at your own risk! 😌🎶

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🔵🔴 Fermín López: “Rodri will give us a lot of quality, it’s a fantastic signing”.

“I’ve asked for number 7! I always liked it. I’m a little bit sad to leave No16 but it will be in good hands”, told @diariara.

[ISABIRYE SHAFIQUE @ficque_ug]

@AKasingye For so long we have been calling you out to stand with the oppressed, and I am glad 😊 you have. he needed yo hear those words directly from someone that loves local football

[AIGP(Rtd) Asan Kasingye @AKasingye]

If it wasn’t for my response, you wouldn’t have talked about this matter in a federation you lead.

In fact, I haven’t heard you in a long time talking about local football. We’ve not been talking about the foreign leagues since June but neither have we heard FUFA talking about the direction of local football including AFCON 2027.

World Cup came & went & we didn’t hear you. AFCON is near the corner, & you can drop a pin & it will be louder than you telling Ugandans about what’s happening or going to happen about it. How ready is Uganda visa vis the other PAMOJA organizers & we’re numb.

Somehow, you will accuse us of supporting foreign leagues. A player was murdered. I didn’t hear a single word from you. You didn’t even attend burial. You sent a representative but you even failed to call for a press conference later.

Somehow, the foreign leagues must be blamed instead of your incompetence. Come on, we’re mature people. Give up & let someone who can overturn this conundrum come up.

[ISABIRYE SHAFIQUE @ficque_ug]

@arihojulio just the way she speaks gets me laughing before even listening to wat she z going to say

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🔵🔴 João Cancelo: “Deco knew that either I came here… or I would spend a year without playing while still collecting my salary”.

“It was Barça or nothing”.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🔵🔴 Rodri has arrived: “It’s a dream to be here. We will go for every title”. 🏆✨

@victor_nahe 🎥

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🔵🔴 Rodri: “It’s a dream to be here! We go for the Champions League and for everything”. 🏆✨

[Julio  @arihojulio]

I'm imagining how many businesses in Kampala close permanently on a daily basis 🙌🤦‍♂️🥹