By Editorial,
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said he is ready to have a showdown with people opposing the rationalization of the Uganda Coffee Development Authority-UCDA.
Speaking to Members of Parliament who belong to his ruling National Resistance Movement at his Kisozi farm, Museveni said his government has been working on defeating poverty in the country and he is not prepared to have anyone distract him.
The President has spent this week writing missives explaining why his government was rationalizing government agencies and authorities.
He said the government has been spending more money on them than it does to ministries yet the latter employs more people than the former. Several stakeholders including Members of Parliament mainly from the coffee-producing areas have vehemently opposed taking UCDA back to the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries-MAAIF.
They argue that doing so is going to negatively affect the budding coffee industry but
Museveni told the Caucus that since he come to power in 1986, his government has been working for the socio-economic transformation of Ugandans. ENDS