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Today, our family and the Covenant Nations Church community witnessed a deeply significant moment as my wife Patience was consecrated to the Episcopal Office of Bishop. For more than 20 years, I have watched her serve quietly, faithfully and with uncommon discipline, choosing the work of God above recognition, position or applause. As I reflected on this journey today, I kept returning to three lessons she has taught our family. First, Repentance. Patience has taught me that repentance is not weakness. It takes courage to return quickly to the truth, to reconcile, to forgive and to keep one’s heart right before God. Second, a healthy resistance to the seduction of power and materialism. She has always been careful with her words, suspicious of flattery and unwilling to let position, status or possessions define her. She would rather remain silent than speak without purpose. Third, Commitment to something higher than self. In a world where many of us want to occupy every space at once, Patience has remained focused on her calling, her family, her faith and her service to others. These lessons have shaped our home, and I believe they will now strengthen the many people God has entrusted to her care. We are deeply grateful to H.E. President @KagutaMuseveni  and Mama @JanetMuseveni  , Bishop Dr. Ladonna Osborn, Pastor E.A. Adeboye and Mrs Folu Adeboye, our church elders, family, friends and everyone who joined us at Covenant Hill, Maya, for this special day. Congratulations, Bishop Patience M. Rwabwogo. May this new season find you humble in service, courageous in truth, measured in leadership and faithful to the calling that has brought you this far.

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Today at NALI, Kyankwanzi, I spoke to Ugandan returnees from South Africa, under the theme: Stages of Social Development. I shared that societies do not transform by accident. They move from survival, to settlement, to production, and finally to knowledge, through technology, organization and leadership. For Uganda, the lesson is clear. We must build the conditions that allow our people to live and work with dignity at home: land productivity, industrial skills, manufacturing, energy, export markets, strong institutions and freedoms that make society predictable. At PACEID, our work on markets, standards, infrastructure and finance is part of this national journey: to create jobs, raise incomes and move Uganda from raw production to value addition and a knowledge economy. A nation must organize, not merely mobilize. Read Full Lecture here: odrekrwabwogo.com/what-are-t…

Today at the National Aquaculture Expo in Kajjansi, I was pleased to engage farmers, researchers, processors, government leaders, development partners and young people working to shape the future of Uganda’s fisheries sector. Aquaculture must now move from a small side activity into a serious export industry. The question is not only how we produce more fish, but how we organise the full ecosystem around it. We need quality seed and fingerlings, reliable feeds, better certification, cold chains, export finance, infrastructure and markets that are opened and defended. If we organise these well, fisheries can contribute up to USD 2 billion in export earnings and create 200,000 to 250,000 jobs over the next five years. Uganda has the water, the science, the farmers and the entrepreneurial energy. What we need now is discipline, coordination and scale. I thank Hon. Robert Migadde Ndugwa Minister of State for MAAIF (Fisheries) , NARO, NaFIRRI, ARDC Kajjansi and all partners advancing this important work. The future of Uganda’s fish sector will be by science, markets, organisation and patient leadership.

For years, travelling within Africa made no sense. You would leave Uganda… fly past it… land somewhere else… Then come back. Today, that has changed. Lagos to Entebbe is now simple. But here is the challenge..: We celebrate the system… and forget to use it. Flights must carry people. Routes must carry goods. Connections must create business. Imagine Ugandan products in a Lagos restaurant. Not as a story… but as a normal thing. That is how barriers truly break.

Uganda cannot compete in a world where other countries send their companies into Africa backed by cheap money, strategic planning, and long-term industrial support. If we are serious about protecting our national interest, then we must build our own response through affordable financing, value addition, mentorship, and fresh thinking. Africa is rich in minerals, talent, and opportunity, but without strategy, consensus, and intellectual discipline, we will continue to export value and import weakness. The future will not wait for us. It is being shaped now.

From early 2023, PACEID worked with the Arise and SPIRO electric bike entities. This is to drive assembly, manufacturing and agrivalue addition on some of the export products under our 13 clusters that we began with. It often feels like a painful compromise to cut taxes we so badly need now in order to get long-term manufacturing and assembly capabilities the country will surely need tomorrow to guarantee the future stability of Uganda. Seeing today many young Ugandans manning the assembly line and the possibility of reducing import exposure on iron and steel parts (bike frames that can be fabricated in the country), plastic casings, rubber and electric cable parts - all made me joyful.  We will make it. China began in 1988 with only 20% assembly gains in electric equipment in Shenzhen, but by 2007, Apple of the USA had outsourced almost 90% of its manufacturing to this city alone, and by 2014, more than a million employees were under one entity there. The picture vastly changed when electronic manufacturing brought in the production of drones, switching gears for telecoms, electric vehicles, etc. It all started with one risk - can you give up something now for a better tomorrow? I thank HE the President for supporting this effort, Mr Gagan, the entrepreneur behind these entities and Ms. Rachelle Yayi for her untiring efforts to make this work in our country

If Uganda gets this right, we do not just build bikes. We build frames, plastics, tyres, battery casings, electrical parts, and the technical human capital to support them. That is how jobs grow. That is how local industry deepens. That is how a country moves from consumption to production.