Busoga Kingdom gets 17,000 coffee seedlings donation

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Busoga Kingdom has received a donation of 17,000 coffee seedlings to boost agricultural production in the region.

The donation is from Hongera Saana Uganda, a presidential mainstream body for peace and development working with the Presidential Initiative for Wealth and Job Creation to promote agricultural mechanisation and the production and export of maize.

It is responsible for distributing agricultural farm inputs like maize seeds, soybeans, coffee seedlings, fertilisers like urea, DAP, organic manure, and Herbicides, plus pesticides among others.

The coffee seedlings were received by Busoga Kingdom's second deputy prime minister, Osman Noor Ahmed, on behalf of ObwaKyabazinga Bwa Busoga (OBB) institution from Ashraf Muyomba, the national co-ordinator Hongera Saana Uganda, at the Kingdom headquarters in Bugembe, Jinja city's Northern Division on May 10, 2025.

The National Coordinator of Hongera Saana Uganda, Ashraf Muyomba (right), ASP Ali Kakooza (left) and Gabula Royal Foundation CEO, Isaac Imaka (2nd left), listening to Busoga Kingdom's 2nd deputy Prime Minister Owek. Osman Ahmed Noor (2nd right) after receiving coffee seedlings from Hongera Saana, Uganda, at Busoga Kingdom headquarters on Saturday. (Photo by Donald Kiirya)

The coffee seedlings were lobbied by Isaac Imaka, the chief executive officer of Gabula Royal Foundation.

Noor said the coffee seedlings were delivered and 7,000 of them were distributed among Imams of various mosques, while the rest were distributed to the youth from different ghettos areas, the elderly, farmers and women groups, among others in Butembe chiefdom. Ghetto youth were from Namulesa, Wanyama and Bugembe.

“We have started the distribution in Butembe chiefdom, we shall roll out to more chiefdoms as we go on receiving more agricultural inputs from Hongera Saana Uganda,” Noor said.

He expressed his appreciation to Hongera Saana Uganda for their effort in fighting poverty and transforming the lives of people in Busoga and Uganda at large.

Imaka thanked the President's Office through Hongera Saana for agreeing to partner with the kingdom to promote peace and development through household income generation projects—the first being coffee growing.

Muyomba said he was accompanied by ASP Ali Kakooza, who represented AIGP David Wasswa from the Directorate of Counter Terrorism of Uganda Police, Bashir Ssemawejje, the Secretary General of Hongera and Quinto Ogwang, among others.

“The gesture today opens up a door of our partnership with ObwaKyabazinga Bwa Busoga Institution—we are here to deliver a package, particularly coffee seedlings from the Office of the President to the people of Busoga, this will realise many homesteads to get transformed and increase their household incomes,” Muyomba said.

He said that he believes that working closely with the Kingdom of Busoga is the best way to achieve their common or main objective of advancing peace in Uganda.  

ASP Kakooza cautioned ghetto youths to desist from acts of crime, which include theft, burglary and highway robberies, among others, but use the seedlings given to them to boost agricultural production and also transform their livelihoods.  

He further cautioned youth not to allow themselves to be used by politicians with selfish interests during the campaign period of the coming general elections, adding that they need a peaceful election to be conducted in the country.