Author: Evans Kalyango

Parliament is currently holding it’s morning session today Wednesday 6th November 2024. Top on the agenda is consideration of the National Coffee Amendment Bill, 2024, in which MPs will decide whether Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) is abolished or not. In the same sitting, MPs are also expected to consider Gov’t’s proposal seeking to abolish Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) & Uganda Road Fund have their functions taken over by the Ministry of Works & Transport. ADVERT: FOR THE BEST WEB HOSTING, WEB DESIGNS AND DOMAIN NAMES, CALL OR WHATSAPP +256758201313 Tension is already brewing at parliament with heavy deployment of…

… this is a deliberate move by President Museveni to prevent rural wealth accumulation, the planned UCDA merger is determined to suppress any financial gains among farmers or anyone who engages themselves in any legitimate commercial activity.’’—said Kabuleta. “I am pleased that people are finally recognizing what we have been cautioning against—President Museveni’s measures to control rural wealth. When he took over in 1986, Uganda’s coffee exports were valued at $94 million which managed to support livelihoods by then. If there’s one thing that concerns him, it’s the idea of rural Ugandans attaining prosperity. The timing of the merger is…

The Acting Director of the Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital, Dr Oscar Kaliisa, has raised concerns about the high rate of outpatients seeking medical attention which affects service delivery due to their limited resources. Dr Kaliisa was speaking over the weekend while receiving a donation of five wheelchairs and a 10,000-litre water tank from Stanbic Bank Uganda. The bank also donated two 10,000-litre tanks and other scholastic items to Rusekere Secondary School. In total, both donations amounted to about UGX25m. “Almost 40% of the people attending the Out Patients Department (OPD) are casualties from motor accidents. Most people use boda-bodas…

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has accused the Katikiro of Buganda Charles Peter Mayiga of spreading lies about the coffee sector amidst the hullabaloo and mumble regarding the rationalization of the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) sending it back to the Ministry of Agriculture. In their campaign dubbed EMWANYI TELIMBA, the Buganda Kingdom has encouraged it’s subjects to engage in coffee farming as one of the ways to fight poverty and joblessness in Buganda and elsewhere in Uganda given the huge investment and market base of the Coffee within and beyond the Ugandan boarders especially in the European Union. ADVERT: AHEAD…

Speaker Anita Among was last week cornered in a tight corner after a video of her tribalizing the bill on the rationalization of Uganda Coffee Development Authority went viral. In the side video, during a break, Speaker Anita Among was heard telling a colleague that “DON’T ALLOW THOSE BAGANDA GET THE NUMBERS”. In her defense, parliament’s Director of Communication Chris Obore watered down the narrative pushing the speaker into a blame corner. Obore instead said the video was generated by Artificial Intelligence and Speaker had not committed a sin worthy an apology or even resignation as many Ugandans has suggested.…

Ahead of Museveni’s meeting with the NRM MPs at his Kisozi Farm in Gomba later this week with reports indicating that the president is meeting his party legislators over the contentious rationalization of the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) back to it’s mother ministry, Katikiro Charles Peter Mayiga has clapped back at Museveni’s government. While addressing the concerns in a detailed document he addressed to his Bazukulu surrounding the rationalization of UCDA, Museveni lashed at those who are tribalizing the issue. Museveni claimed no one can teach him anything regarding coffee and he insists UCDA must be eliminated by hook…

The National Economic Empowerment Dialogue (NEED),  through its National Spokesperson Hon. Ssaalongo Matovu Moses, in today’s press Conference expressed deep concerns over recent trends in Uganda’s Parliament that undermine the unity of the nation, particularly around issues of tribalism. “NEED condemns the divisive actions observed in the House, with particular reference to remarks by Speaker Hon. Anitah Annette Among and we therefore call upon Members of Parliament (MPs) to set aside regional biases and unite in the best interest of the Ugandan people and the economy,” said the Spokesperson. Hon Matovu also highlighted recent efforts to rationalize the Uganda Coffee…

By Sando Martin The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in-charge of regional  cooperation who is also the Member of Parliament for Samia Bugwe North constituency in Busia District, Hon. John Mulimba has grilled both the National Forestry Authority Officers at Busitema Forest and Busia police over extortion, torture, harassment of residents and detention of people including pregnant women after failing to arrest their husbands on allegations of cutting trees and collecting firewood from Busitema Forest. Grieved residents narrate that National Forestry Authority Officers have so far killed four people for being found in the forest cutting trees while others…

Following a poor run full of disappointments and embarrassments, Manchester United Head Coach Erik Ten Hag has been shown the exit at Old Trafford. The club has appointed former Manchester United Player Ruud van Nistelrooy as interim coach who will be supported by the entire coaching staff. Taking to their official website, Manchester United have issues a full statement; “Erik ten Hag has left his role as Manchester United men’s first-team manager. Erik was appointed in April 2022 and led the club to two domestic trophies, winning the Carabao Cup in 2023 and the FA Cup in 2024. We are…

In their thousands, Kampala cleaners have implored the President to consider pardoning ex-KCCA Executive Director Dorothy Kisaka and the other two directors with whom she was fired and subsequently put on trial over the 35 lives that were lost because of the Kiteezi disaster. Led by a one Menton, the cleaners are scattered in the five Divisions of Kampala and they are grateful that Kisaka deliberately set out to give them a chance at life by rehabilitating them from the street life and criminal past they had been addicted to for years. It was her initiative to get them involved…