Even as Parliament on May 18 voted to terminate the agreement between the government and Uganda Vinci Coffee Company Limited (UVCCL), ending weeks of anxiety within the coffee sector, players warn the deal could resurface as it represents President Yoweri Museveni’s fight for value addition.
“We have to wait and see, but the way this thing happened in the first place was irregular. So we won’t be surprised if it bounces back in some other form,” says an executive of a leading coffee exporting company, who declined to be named.
