It happened on March 29, 2021 (on Monday). The same day that confused Uganda Cranes was humiliated by little-known Malawi football team, The Flames.
The real intention (of sacking Mutebi on that day) perhaps was to dilute the noise-making by KCCA fans that would ensue because no-nonsense Mike Mutebi was sacked.
Despite being described as the most successful coach in the history of that football club KCCA, the management at that club chose to humiliate Mike Mutebi by highly publicizing his sacking. It is sad.
The letter ending his employment was posted on social media. It went viral. His enemies are, as we speak, still circulating it.
When FUFA listened to the deafening noise made by newspaper men attacking inexperienced and untested Jonathan Mckinistry, my contacts within the main building at FUFA (in Mengo) whispered to me, Edgar Watson and Moses Magogo, guided by Justus Mugisha, developed belief that a local coach would do the then small remaining job, to lead the national team to AFCON, in Cameroon slated for next year.
So, McKinstry was asked to step aside for at least a month. On the list of those that would be considered to replace technically-poor Mckinistry was Mike Hillary Mutebi.
Because he says the truth he sees, my contacts have revealed to this newspaper that a section of big wigs at Mengo dumped his name in a waste basket and instead opted for humble and quiet Abdallah Mubiru.
Like the dead Magufuli of Tanzania, Mike Mutebi made himself very many enemies in the country. Mutebi spoke the truth.
He said when his KCCA won a Uganda Premier League trophy for the 2016-17 season that for more than a decade, clubs especially two of the VEK ones (Villa and Express FC) had won the cups they had, unfairly. VEK clubs bribed referees, Mutebi said.
Magogo’s FUFA, that prefers few intelligent men and women near the dining table at Mengo, could not employ such a wiseacre like Mike Mutebi.
Like Magufuli, who succumbed to heart failure, on the evening of March 17, 2021, Mike Mutebi always said what he thought was necessary at KCCA, and argued with his bosses. It was a crime!
John Pombe Magufuli was just 61 years of age at the time of his death. He was so popular in Tanzania and across the world that even we stone-hearted men at DFPL sobbed for days.
With the help of our contacts across the region, we covered all the crucial events in Tanzania following Magufuli’s death.
Here is another victim. Magufuli spoke the truth. He passed away at 61.
Our own Mutebi is alive. Unemployment is the price he has paid for being bold and authoritative. Like deceased Magufuli, he (Mike Mutebi) is larger-than-life.
