Charles Batambuze

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[Charles Batambuze @cbatambuze]

It’s Time for Uganda to Re-establish the Ministry of Culture @UNCC_UG
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[NBS Television @nbstv]

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[REST TV @resttvuganda]

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[REST TV @resttvuganda]

This Friday, April 26th at 8AM, join us at House Of Rest (Former Fidodido) on Kampala Road as Rest TV partners with the National Library of Uganda to celebrate World Book and Copyright Day. Let's celebrate the power of books together! #WorldBookDay #RestTV #NationalLibraryUganda

[Charles Batambuze @cbatambuze]

@pearlwoodug @Parliament_Ug @panaf_org Good luck with the campaign

[Pearlwood🇺🇬 @pearlwoodug]

The film-makers petition to the Deputy Speaker of 🇺🇬 @Parliament_Ug was signed by over 150 Film-makers.

This was after several unfruitful engagements with all the respective government ministries & agencies.

#EvilArtEra the next big generational fight.

@panaf_org
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[Charles Batambuze @cbatambuze]

@abdirahimifiye @URROUganda @EaslisMak @Makerere @MakCoCIS @MakGuild I was guest lecturer to this class of MSc information science at Makerere University. It was a great pleasure to discuss with them the Copyright law, its application in the business world and recent developments to amend the Ugandan Copyright Act.

[National Culture Forum @NCFUganda]

L-R Emma Carlos Mulondo - Executive Secretary NCF; Gilbert Agaba - Director IP, URSB; Mercy Kainobwisho the Registrar General URSB; and Charles Batambuze Vice Chairman NCF & ED URRO following the conclusion of the URSB Registrar General's Midyear stakeholders engagement

[Charles Batambuze @cbatambuze]

@AigpDamulira @NCFUganda @UNCC_UG @ubctvuganda @PoliceUg There's hope

[Charles Batambuze @cbatambuze]

@Liberty18630409 @GodwinTOKO Jimmy 0776893345

[Charles Batambuze @cbatambuze]

@docaya772 @GodwinTOKO Jimmy has them 0776893345

[Charles Batambuze @cbatambuze]

@KakwenzaRukira @mkainerugaba Aye bana rukira!

[Charles Batambuze @cbatambuze]

@job_matua @martinssempa Many times people have taken their political disputes to the bush or in the streets.

[Charles Batambuze @cbatambuze]

What a revelation!

[Snr. Cde. Robert Kabushenga @rkabushenga]

COFFEE SCAM EXPOSÉ 4

Why & how @TugumeNelsonO created @coffeeinvestug

To do so we must explain why Nelson has closed his Coffee City outfit & Inspire Africa Café on TWED Towers. Part of the reason is he had to flee his rent obligations. Landlords have been left holding an empty can.

Most importantly is that @PSF_Uganda thru their bankers @UgEquityBank repossessed the coffee machines & tuktuks he bought with their money, failed to create the promised 1m youth jobs under the @youngafricawks initiative & refused to pay back.

When the cash from @OPMUganda @PSF_Uganda @UNDPUganda dried up, he now found his way to @StateHouseUg. I wrote about this yesterday.

Having failed to hijack other coffee initiatives, he set up a partnership with @Odrek_Rwabwogo & @paceidug to set up #UGConnect ostensibly to brand Ugandan coffee in the international market. They got UGX 37bn(US$10m) provided in the budget.Questions about the wisdom of this were brushed aside because it had political clearance as a part of the @PresidencyUg budget. In fact Odrek explained in an interview that this money was part of a larger trade frontier fund to finance exports.

Nelson then cobbled together a disparate group of unsuspecting coffee actors who innocently joined thinking it was a genuine initiative to fund coffee exports. He then started going to others demanding a few of UGX10m to join the consortium so as to access this export finance. The more discerning ones stayed away. In all this @CoffeeUganda was sidelined as not being aligned to the President’s coffee value addition agenda. All objections to & advice against this subjective handling of public funds was shouted down in fits of political rage.

Nelson, true character then changed tack. He abandoned the larger membership of the consortium. Instead he worked with 3 trusted confidantes & they hatched a new purpose for the $10m. They changed from export finance to funding coffee hubs set up by him across the country & branding. H would later tell some sector players that he was arranging for UGX300bn for coffee export financing to be included in the national budget for FY 24/25.

Anyway, it is on the basis of the hubs & branding proposal that money was disbursed to the individual consortium members that were supposedly setting up hubs. Only his confidantes got money. The others were played & they exited the consortium. The few who managed to corner him were offered $15k for branding expenses and only on condition that they added a UGConnect logo. This was designed for the consortium, Nelson, Odrek & his PACEID outfit to account for this money by showing they were now exporting processed coffee.

Things became tight when the President now wanted proof of exports of processed coffee to the “new markets”. Nelson began to run around looking for coffee to buy on credit and export. He failed. To date, no coffee has been exported under any of their initiatives. Millions of dollars have vanished. In the meantime signatories to the consortium accounts were secretly changed.

Nelson is supposed to be the silver bullet for the coffee value addition initiative. Now we know why it will never happen. There will be no export trade fund. Farmers will never see the promised good prices. 12 m Ugandans who live off coffee will be disgruntled by the false promise. And I can predict, the thieves will get away with it.

[Charles Batambuze @cbatambuze]

@wiseconnector What about AgendA

[Charles Batambuze @cbatambuze]

@NCFUganda @Utama_Official @UgandaFilmAssn @UFN_Ug @UgandaPoets @UgandaMusicians @apau Terikuzikiza

[Charles Batambuze @cbatambuze]

@pearlwoodug @AishaFlyFilms @UgandaMusicians @phinamugerwa @NCFUganda Happening

[Pearlwood🇺🇬 @pearlwoodug]

Sector representatives:
President General -@pearlwoodug Ms. @AishaFlyFilms

Secretary General - @UgandaMusicians, Ms. @phinamugerwa

Vice Chairperson -@NCFUganda, Mr. @cbatambuze

IP & Copyright advocate, Mr. Wasula James

...+ Many more others.

[Charles Batambuze @cbatambuze]

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[Charles Batambuze @cbatambuze]

@Florah_Show @NCFUganda @GalaxyTVUg It was a great pleasure to be a guest on Galaxy tv. Thank you.