Fresh from celebrating their return to the Africa Cup of Nations after 38 years, Ugandans were this week shocked by revelations that the coach that had led this historic return to Africa’s biggest football showpiece had not been paid his salaries for five months.
The Ugandan Cranes coach Micho Sredojevic is owed an accrued amount of $60,000 by the Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA).
FUFA confirmed owing the tactician money, and promised to work on paying him.
Following these revelations, Ugandan social media users have been up in arms demanding that Micho be paid the outstanding arrears.
Most express their gratitude to the coach for masterminding their return to AFCON, and want him to be paid for his services.
Here are some of the tweets that the angry Ugandan Twitter users have made;
theaznt any man in Ug who deserves hiz salary better than u sir..#PayMicho
— BORISKAKUHIKIRE ᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠ༝༝ᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠ (@boriskakuhikire) September 8, 2016
https://twitter.com/Umarl/status/773779573217558528
Micho is lucky we qualified. Had we failed, Magogo would have sacked him & not paid his arrears. Same thing as with Mahmud Abaas. #PayMicho
— Bibi Rukwengye (@Rukwengye) September 8, 2016
FUFA says they'll pay Micho. And that's very noble of them. But why does the man have to first make noise for it to happen? #PayMicho
— Beewol (@beewol) September 8, 2016
