A visibly angry President Yoweri Museveni has rebuked Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga, the prime minister of Buganda Kingdom, Uganda’s most influential monarchy.
As Museveni keeps pushing for coffee sector changes, several Ugandans have opposed the proposals in the coffee bill and in the rationalization policy.
Among others, the new changes could see the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) scrapped, coffee farmers registered, traders and middlemen licensed.
The debate on the disbandment of UCDA has sparked off huge debate both in and out of Parliament. First the speaker, Anita Among was accused of working with the government side to plot a vote that could reportedly punish Buganda.
Katikkiro Mayiga even made it clear that he believed the planned disbandment of UCDA and other coffee sector reforms were meant to punish Buganda. President Museveni then warned against tribalizing the debate of coffee sector reforms, particularly the rationalization of UCDA and other agencies he labelled parasites, as reported Here and There.
But Museveni has come out to rebuke Katikkiro Mayiga, describing some of his thoughts of the controversial coffee bill and UCDA disbandment as nonsense and as being filled with lies that he should stop spreading.
“There is no license [for coffee]. I heard that this Katikkiro was telling lies about that but I sent a message to somebody that he should stop that nonsense,” said Museveni. “There is no licensing, what will happen is registering: registering is not licensing.”
It should be remembered that SMELLING A RAT IN COFFEE, Katikkiro Mayiga has told Museveni to Respect Ugandans’ Views, while a former finance minister has warned Museveni against throwing UCDA Away Like Paper Towels but called for a Referendum on the matter. (See Details Here and There).
You can see the list of Uganda’s top 65 coffee billionaire companies and how much coffee they sell abroad Here.
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