A board member for the rationalized Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) Haji Twahir Ssebaggala has urged Buganda coffee growers to stop perceiving the authority’s merger to the mother ministry as a Buganda matter alone, clarifying that it is a concern to all regions.
Haji Ssebaggala who is also a member of the Uganda Quality Coffee Traders Association pointed out that today, Buganda has ceased to be home to indigenous Baganda alone and turned into a ‘united nations’ of sorts, with people from all over the region dealing in coffee business in Buganda.
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“We should stop categorizing ourselves as the only people concerned over the fate of UCDA because coffee is grown all over the country; there are coffee dealers in Paidha, in Kasese, in Kagadi, in Kacumbala, elsewhere, and such talk as “we Baganda” in reference to coffee should be discouraged at all costs”, the Mukono district NRM chairperson said.
Ssebaggala who was talking to Kyaggwe TV on Wednesday about the state of affairs on coffee business after enactment of the coffee bill into a law, thanked Buganda Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga for spearheading the campaign for increased coffee growing, the law notwithstanding.
The outspoken coffee grower, processor and exporter advised Ugandans to avoid mixing politics with coffee business, and wait for the right time for politicking rather than playing the two at the same time.