The President also applauded the riders for operating under organized leadership and encouraged them to continue mobilizing communities to embrace government poverty alleviation programs.

The President directed veteran leaders to account for UGX 231 billion disbursed over the years under a 2009 arrangement that provided financial support to liberation war leaders, their spouses, and support cadres.

"As Uganda expands its footprint in the European Union, Asia, the Middle East and other markets, our success will increasingly depend not only on what we produce but on how well our products meet international standards and regulatory requirements,” Masagazi said.

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has used his 2026 State of the Nation Address to issue a stern warning to leaders who seek public office...

“I don't want to hear that there is poverty in homesteads that have land and yet money is there at the parish level. If you are a minister and I come to your village and people are still suffering, I will sack you. I want to inform everybody that I have been monitoring and I don't want to embarrass mature people. The money is there on the ground; let's use it to get our people out of poverty,” Museveni said.

“With trailblazers like YPA, our young people can create millions of jobs and opportunities back home for themselves rather than flock out of the country to work as maids and offer unskilled labour in what are sometimes indecent and very dehumanizing conditions abroad,” Museveni said.

President Museveni reaffirmed the government’s stance on value addition, stressing that Uganda remains focused on ending the export of unprocessed minerals in order to create jobs, spur industrial growth, and increase domestic revenue generation.

“Jobs will not be a problem. In our refinery in Nigeria, we employ people from many nationalities, and East Africans will also benefit from this project,” Dangote noted.

“Our interest remains security, revenue assurance, and ensuring proper accountability within the telecommunications sector so that we clearly know what is happening with telecom companies and who the customers are,” the president said.

Serdarow further briefed President Museveni on Turkmenistan’s economic potential, highlighting the country’s vast natural gas and oil reserves, which have positioned it as one of Central Asia’s major energy exporters.

As Uganda searches for sustainable pathways toward industrial growth and youth employment, investments in electric mobility and manufacturing are increasingly becoming more than business ventures — they are emerging as tests of the country’s readiness for a modern, innovation-driven economy. Whether Gagan Gupta’s model succeeds may ultimately depend not only on investment capital, but on Uganda’s ability to build the infrastructure, accountability, and policy stability needed to turn economic ambition into measurable public impact

Museveni said Uganda is ready to cooperate with Gabon in agriculture and value addition, highlighting Uganda’s progress in processed exports such as coffee, tea, dairy products and honey.