Police Investigate Afcon Match Fixing Claims

Uganda Police are inves
tigating claims that there was match fixing involved in some of the Cranes 2015 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifying matches.
Moses Magogo, the Uganda FA President told Tidesports that because of the public outcry and allegations, they have handed the matter to the Police to investigate. “We shall make sure we try to find out the truth because Ugandans deserve to find out,” he added.
The President said the Federation received reports of fans attacking different players for allegedly fixing the match result against Guinea last week. The Cranes who needed only a draw to Guinea last week lost 2-0 and had skipper Andrew Mwesigwa sent-off.
Magogo said considering that match fixing is one of the cardinal offenses in football, they have decided to engage the Police to utilize its expertise, facilities and the law to investigate the entire campaign into such allegations so that those innocent are cleared but in event of finding any person in acts that caused such pain to the nation, the law and the football regulations will take course
A source in Police who did not want to be mentioned told AfricanFootball.com that they are going to cross check who the players have been communicating with on phone and this should help get some leads.
Uganda finished third in Group E behind Guinea and the Black Stars of Ghana. The Cranes started the campaign with a 1-1 draw away in Ghana before defeating Guinea 2-0 in Kampala. They later lost back to back matches to Togo before picking a 1-0 win over Ghana in Kampala.