The leader of a little-known opposition political party in Uganda, “the National Economic Empowerment Dialogue (NEED),” Joseph Kabuleta, known for his scamming tactics, has finally joined the ongoing coffee debate.
On Monday, November 4, 2024, while at the NEED headquarters in Mengo, Kabuleta, a former presidential candidate, as usual, made a trickster-like statement in which he attacked the government’s decision to rationalize the Uganda Coffee Development Authority.
Kabuleta’s move to join the ongoing debate is greatly motivated by the unrealistic desire for donor funds and to find the easiest ways to account for the funds he received a few months ago.
In this latest series of tricks, Kabuleta is currently presenting himself as the lead advocate for a section of coffee farmers, mainly from Buganda, against the decision.
His motive is clearly to attract the attention of donors in Western countries who have been desperate to destabilize Uganda.
Kabuleta, a former brown-envelope journalist, has never abandoned his scamming style ever since he joined politics.
A source among his close associates has revealed that Kabuleta has in recent months received a huge sum of funds from donors in the UK to promote agriculture in Uganda since it’s one of the key pillars of his NEED party; unfortunately, he pocketed it alone.
In his claim, Kabuleeta alleged that rationalizing UCDA will affect rural wealth accumulation. This particular utterance is rather contradictory by a political failure of Kabuleeta’s nature, whose urge is always to identify where to scam from.
Kabuleeta is one of those opposition politicians whose aim is to oppose everything, including good initiatives aimed at promoting the socio-economic development of Ugandans.
Recently he held an extensive meeting with a group of anti-Uganda forces, where he got an unspecified huge sum of money to mislead the public using the media and holding public events.
He mentions that Uganda’s coffee exports were valued at USD 94 million by 1986, but he does not continue to inform Ugandans that Uganda was producing 2 million bags of coffee at that time, but due to President Museveni’s intervention and broad-based approach, Uganda currently produces 9 million bags of coffee, attracting over USD 900 million in coffee export earnings.
Several agencies, like the Dairy Development Authority, National Agricultural Advisory Services, and many others, later turned out to be parasitic; therefore, the government decided to rationalize it to save taxpayers money. The parasitic nature of these agencies and authorities promoted waste and parasitism.
Why should Kabuleeta dream of using the debate on UCDA to account for the huge sum of funds he has received by inciting and misleading our people?
The 2016/2017 public resource spending figures showed that agencies and authorities were taking 2.2 trillion shillings and the ministries 2.6 trillion shillings with duplication of responsibilities. The hypocritical nature of these opposition politicians like Kabuleeta should be ignored by all Ugandans and focus on the socio-economic development of Uganda.
