Katikkiro asks Buganda to stop lamenting

Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga (2nd right), Buganda Kingdom officials and Nakaseke leaders inspect coffee farming projects in Nakaseke District on Tuesday. PHOTO BY DAN WANDERA

What you need to know:

  • Buganda Kingdom lands and agriculture minister Martin Kasekende said Shs1.2b has so far been invested in purchasing and distributing coffee seedlings to farmers in the ongoing planting season, while another Shs1.5b will be spent on buying coffee seedlings for the September-December planting season.
  • Mr Allan Ssebunya Mayanja, the Buganda Kingdom Youth Council speaker, said Nakaseke District needs a robust coffee production project that also targets the youth.

NAKASEKE. The Katikkiro of Buganda, Mr Charles Peter Mayiga, has asked the people of Buganda to stop what he called ‘a culture of lamenting’ and advised them to embrace hard work to fight household poverty.
Mr Mayiga said many of Kabaka’s subjects are still ‘mourning’ the collapse of industries and factories that used to exist in Buganda in the 1960s and 1970s yet they can create jobs and fight poverty through commercial farming.

“I don’t subscribe to those who think we must first revive factories to change the lives of our people. Factories cannot end poverty at household level. Buganda can fight poverty through farming projects and not establishing factories. The culture of complaining and failing to embrace farming as the best approach to help overcome poverty at household level should stop,” Mr Mayiga said.
“Coffee has been and will remain a valuable cash crop in Buganda and everyone also needs food on a daily basis. So what you produce cannot fail to get market,” he added.

Mr Mayiga made the remarks while touring progressive coffee farmers in Nakaseke District where he launched the Buganda Kingdom mass coffee cultivation project aimed at reviving the coffee industry and encouraging families to fight poverty through farming projects on Tuesday.
Buganda Kingdom lands and agriculture minister Martin Kasekende said Shs1.2b has so far been invested in purchasing and distributing coffee seedlings to farmers in the ongoing planting season, while another Shs1.5b will be spent on buying coffee seedlings for the September-December planting season.
Mr Allan Ssebunya Mayanja, the Buganda Kingdom Youth Council speaker, said Nakaseke District needs a robust coffee production project that also targets the youth.