Over two years back, on the 10th day of January 2020, striker Joel Madondo joined Moroccan powerhouse Wydad Casablanca on a four year deal from Busoga United.
How much Wydad Casablanca and Busoga agreed for the striker is something that was kept under the wraps from the onset.
Even when the Moroccan side took longer to meet their part of the bargain until FIFA intervened, still Madondo’s price tag remained a secret.
The player who now plies his trade with top flight side Gaddafi FC did not stay long in Morocco for several unclear reasons but, at least, Wydad finally met their part of the deal with the Jinja-based outfit.
On January 18th, 2022 Wydad wired USD50,000 (about UGX177,383,320) on the Busoga United Bank of Africa account (01670670000).
However, when the Club hierarchy thought they could finally take care of their financial challenges and burdens, their celebrations were cut short.
A day later, according to a bank statement seen by Football256, one of the team’s signatories Robert Adotu withdrew UGX124,000,000 before later withdrawing UGXUGX53,214,900.
A snippet of the bank statement showing the deposit and withdraw of the money from the Busoga United Bank of Africa bank account
According to the bank documents also seen by this reporter, the account number where the money was deposited by Wydad and later withdrawn by Adotu has three signatories.
Diana Nyango, who was the chairman of the club when the account was opened, Aduto who is one of the founding members and Hassan Takoowa who was the CEO then, and now the club president were the trio of signatories.
The documents clearly state that the CEO should be a mandatory signatory on the account before any money is to be withdrawn from the bank.
This time around, Takoowa wasn’t contacted even when he is the one in possession of the cheque book of the said bank account.
Football256 later learnt that the money was withdrawn and picked from the counter by Aduto at least according to the ba documents.
When reached by this reporter for a comment via a call, Aduto responded; “I am not the club PRO, I also don’t comment on club matters on phone.”
“If you want to interview me, find me in Soroti,” he added when pressed on where he could be found for a comment, before hanging up.
This comes at a time when Busoga players, staff and other service providers have gone months without pay, leaving the plight of the club’s future in tatters.
The development also happens when there is struggle for the club from Nyango and Takoowa, the former handed the club to the latter legally but has been using forcefully measures to regain ownership.
This post was written by Clive Kyazze, initially published by football256.com and reproduced by kick442.com as an official partner media.
