• EDITORIAL POLICY
  • ABOUT US
PML Daily
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • NEWS
    • Politics
    • Education
    • Regional
    • Africa
    • World
  • INVESTIGATIONS
    • National Archives
    • Special Reports
  • OpEd
  • BUSINESS
    • Agriculture
    • Tech
    • Finance
  • FEATURES
    • Health
    • Tours & Travel
    • Entertainment
    • Society
  • COLUMNISTS
    • The Suited Penguin
  • SPORT
  • Jobs
  • Magazines
  • Home
  • NEWS
    • Politics
    • Education
    • Regional
    • Africa
    • World
  • INVESTIGATIONS
    • National Archives
    • Special Reports
  • OpEd
  • BUSINESS
    • Agriculture
    • Tech
    • Finance
  • FEATURES
    • Health
    • Tours & Travel
    • Entertainment
    • Society
  • COLUMNISTS
    • The Suited Penguin
  • SPORT
  • Jobs
  • Magazines
No Result
View All Result
PML Daily
No Result
View All Result
Home NEWS

Nandala bounces back as Bugisu Cooperative Union chairman

GEORGE OKELLO | PML Daily Senior CorrespondentbyGEORGE OKELLO | PML Daily Senior Correspondent
November 29, 2018
22 0
16
SHARES
316
VIEWS
FacebookWhatsAppTwitter
Budadiri West MP Nathan Nandala Mafabi returns as chairperson of Bugisu Cooperative Union (BCU) after he was gazetted unopposed (FILE PHOTO)

MBALE – Budadiri West MP Nathan Nandala Mafabi has bounced back as chairperson of Bugisu Cooperative Union (BCU) in style after he was elected unopposed.

This was after his rival, Julius Nakiyi, withdrew from the race on Tuesday, a day to the election, which was scheduled for Wednesday.

And at the BCU meeting on Wednesday attended by over 600 members from different districts in the region, Fredrick Ngobi Gume, the State Minister for Cooperatives, declared Mafabi the chairman, ending a period of confusion and uncertainty about the leadership of the oldest cooperative unions in the country.

Ngobi urged the farmers to use the union to fight poverty.

“I urge the cooperative members not to listen to the people who want to divert them from developing the union yet they are not members of the union,” he said.

Mafabi, in his acceptable speech, thanked the delegates for entrusting him with the mantle.

“The delegates have proved the trust they have in my leadership and we are going to work hard to prove the people who are hired to fight the Union wrong,” he said.

He added that through coffee growing, Bamasaba can fight poverty.

“Coffee is only the crop, which was left to us by our ancestors, with potential to uplift us from poverty,” he said.

Mr Nandala also urged farmers not only plant but also improve quality on the coffee in order to fetch higher prices.

The meeting was attended by Bob Mushikori, the cultural leader of the Bamasaba, who urged government to stop fighting Nandala leadership but instead support him to develop the Union of his people.

Mafabi’s election comes following several court petitions.

In September, the High Court issued an injunction stopping BCU Board led by Mafabi from handling the affairs of the farmers’ group, arguing that their term of office expired.

BCU is comprised of 274 farmer groups but five of them, which Muruba, Bumatofu, Bumusabire, Bumbobi and Bukhaweka, had dragged the Board led by Mr Nandala to court, claiming that he could not continue transacting business on behalf of the Union when their term expired in March.

Justice Tadeo Asiimwe ruled that the Board should stop handling the Union affairs until a fresh election is held.

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook

Related

Leave a comment

Tags: Budadiri West MP Nandala MafabiBugisu Cooperative UnionNandala Mafabitop

Get real time update about this post categories directly on your device, subscribe now.

Unsubscribe


About

The PML Daily, published via www.pmldaily.com is a publication of Post Media Ltd, a professional Digital/New Media company in Uganda.

Follow us



  • EDITORIAL POLICY
  • ABOUT US

© 2023

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • NEWS
    • Politics
    • Education
    • Regional
    • Africa
    • World
  • INVESTIGATIONS
    • National Archives
    • Special Reports
  • OpEd
  • BUSINESS
    • Agriculture
    • Tech
    • Finance
  • FEATURES
    • Health
    • Tours & Travel
    • Entertainment
    • Society
  • COLUMNISTS
    • The Suited Penguin
  • SPORT
  • Jobs
  • Magazines

© 2023

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In

Add New Playlist