Ssekitoleko whose whereabouts were unknown on Friday last week has been finally found.
The Uganda Olympics Committee’s (UOC) Secretary General, Beatrice Ayikoru, confirmed he had been found in a short video statement without revealing any further details.
“He has been located and is with the (unspecified) authorities in the office in Izumisano,” she said.
Reports from the Japanese news agency Kyodo said that Ssekitoleko was found some 40km south of the Japanese city of Nagoya, where he had been spotted buying a rail ticket.
After he had been informed by the International Weightlifting Federation on 5 July 2021 that he had not made the quota for the Olympics, the UOC had arranged for him and his coach to return to Uganda on 20 July.
