Mu gihe u Rwanda rukomeje kwitegura uruzinduko rufite isura y’amateka mu mupira w’amaboko Basketball , inkuru nziza yasakaye mu bakunzi b’iyi kipe: Umunyamerika Hason Ward yongewe ku rutonde rw’Ikipe y’Igihugu y’u Rwanda, izitabira Igikombe cya Afurika kizabera muri Angola guhera tariki ya 12 kugeza ku ya 24 Kanama 2025.
Iri rushanwa rizaba ari ryo rigize urubuga rukomeye rwa Afurika muri uyu mwaka, rikazahuza amakipe akomeye ku mugabane. U Rwanda, rumaze igihe ruri mu rugendo rwo kubaka ikipe ikomeye, rukaba rugamije gutangaza no guharanira umwanya mwiza kurusha isura rwari rusanzwe rufite.
Hason Ward, Umunyamerika ufite inkomoko mu Rwanda, ni umwe mu bakinnyi bafite ubuhanga n’ubunararibonye mu mupira w’agatebo (Basketball) ku rwego mpuzamahanga. Yakinanye n’Amavubi mu bihe byashize, atanga umusanzu ukomeye mu mikino y’amajonjora, ariko yari ataragaragara ku rutonde rwa nyuma rwari ruherutse gushyirwa ahagaragara n’abatoza. Kwinjizwa kwe ku mugaragaro byatumye abakunzi b’iyi kipe bongera kugira icyizere n’amarangamutima ataha mu mitima.
Mu kiganiro na bamwe mu bafana ku kibuga cy’imyitozo cya Kigali Arena, hari abagaragaje akanyamuneza:
“Ward ni umukinnyi ufite imbaraga, azi guhindura umukino. Kuba yagarutse mu ikipe ni inyungu ikomeye,”
nk’uko byatangajwe na Jean Claude Habineza, umwe mu bafana bakurikirana Amavubi bidasanzwe.
Umutoza mukuru w’Ikipe y’Igihugu yemeje aya makuru, ashimangira ko yizeye ko izindi mbaraga za Ward zizafasha guhuza ikipe, guharanira gutsinda no kugera ku nzozi zo kubona itike y’amarushanwa akomeye ku isi:
“Twari dukeneye umuntu uzi kurwana ku mukino, kandi Hason Ward ni umwe muri bo. Turiteguye kandi turasaba Abanyarwanda bose gukomeza kuduha ishyaka n’inkunga.”
Ikipe izakomeza imyitozo yayo muri Kigali, mbere yo kugirira umwiherero w’ibyumweru bibiri muri Luanda, muri Angola, guhera mu ntangiriro za Kanama.
U Rwanda ruzatangira amarushanwa tariki ya 12 Kanama, rukina umukino wa mbere uzatangira urugamba rwo kuzana ibihe byiza mu Amavubi no kubakaibigwi.