THE annual Cecafa-Kagame Cup Club Championship has received a $20,000 additional sponsorship from Tanzania’s Quality Chemicals Limited.The Chief Executive Officer of Quality Chemicals Limited Yussuf Mwangi said his company will inject $20,000 in addition to President Paul Kagame’s annual $60,000 worth of prize money to make the tournament more successful.Mwangi confirmed the development when Yanga FC of Tanzania were hosted by President Kagame at Village Urugwiro on Thursday.“We recognise the assistance President Paul Kagame has given to sports in the region. My company has offered to inject $20,000 annually to the tournament so as to add value to the Cecafa-Kagame Cup tournament,” said Mwangi.In 2002, President Kagame became the first sponsor of the club competition, injecting $60,000 which is distributed among the top three finishing teams in the annual tournament. Besides the prize money, the President also gives $15,000 every year for organisation of the tournament, bringing his total sponsorship to $75,000.As a result of that support, Cecafa leaders renamed the competition Cecafa-Kagame Cup Club championship. The sponsorship remains the competition’s lifeline to date.The 2013 Cecafa/Kagame club championship will be held in Kigali in January, according to Secretary General Nicholas Musonye.Musonye will be in Kigali next month to meet officials from the Sports Ministry and lay strategies on how they can attract sponsors to enable them host the tournament.Tanzania’s Yanga won the 2012 title for the second year running after beating local rivals Azam in the final three weeks ago in Dar es Salaam.Rwanda’s representatives and three-time winners APR, lost the third place playoff contest 2-1 to guests DR Congo’s AS Vita.
