Gilbert Mukama

God fearing & game changer

[Ministry of Works & Transport @MoWT_Uganda]

✅WORKS RESUME

Busega—Mpigi Expressway Project.

[933 KFM @933kfm]

This week, Nation Media Group-Uganda explores Nyakisharara- a mega international airport project in Mbarara, to not only find out progress made on the ground but also assess its viability.

[Daily Monitor @DailyMonitor]

Nyakisharara Airport: Is it a vision or an illusion?
https://t.co/CvLqKiseaD
#MonitorUpdates

[NTV UGANDA @ntvuganda]

Is Mbarara International Airport a vision or an illusion?
#NTVNews https://t.co/4pRY7cwJ8A

[Daily Monitor @DailyMonitor]

Uganda is set to build in Mbarara City what President Museveni says will be one of the world’s largest airports. Proponents front the planned Nyakisharara International Airport as a mid-point transit, logistical and refuelling hub between China and Brazil, claiming it will help triple Uganda’s economy. But will the mega project get the wings to fly?
https://t.co/IxEZESClXt
#MonitorUpdates

[Gilbert Mukama @GilbertMukama]

Football lovers.

[Upscheme Marketing Agency @jekayug]

What makes football data good data?

Join experts and practitioners at the 3rd Uganda Football Data Conference 2026 as we explore the standards, systems, and solutions needed to achieve data excellence in football.

📅 25 July 2026
📍 Skyz Hotel, Naguru

#DataCon2026

[Upscheme Marketing Agency @jekayug]

What makes football data good data?

Join experts and practitioners at the 3rd Uganda Football Data Conference 2026 as we explore the standards, systems, and solutions needed to achieve data excellence in football.

📅 25 July 2026
📍 Skyz Hotel, Naguru

#DataCon2026

[FUFA Tv @fufatv1]

💬 @LewisAinebyona on what's happening this weekend at the #BoonaSportsFest26.

[Muhoozi Kainerugaba @mkainerugaba]

Those who want me to release him retweet. Those who don't like. I will decide after that.

[Tabz @NinyeTabz]

But @SpireJim 😂😂

[Muhoozi Kainerugaba @mkainerugaba]

The security forces under the direction and instructions of the Commander-in-Chief launched Operation 'Maliza Ufisadi' the other day. We shall expand this operation and apprehend all culprits. No one will be spared.

[Tabz @NinyeTabz]

Anita Annet Among’s house in Kigo has four basement levels. What you see is not even half of the house!

She’s yet to see the real basement!

[Tabz @NinyeTabz]

This was part of my speech at the burial of my late father in September 2024. I had a message for Museveni and Annet Anita Among delivered in a mixture of languages. My father was called Tabandama and so is his son and was his father!

Interest yourselves in what Tabandama means!

[GrootMan @MwinePerez_]

Ugandans should never ever forget this day!! Tayebwa should go to HELL

[The Patriot ™ @Danieobua]

He died of a pothole and incompetence of emergency room doctors at Mengo. Rest in peace Obi.

[Gilbert Mukama @GilbertMukama]

Hire a driver

[Ndyatunga Simon @Timelessthemes]

My Nine Year Ordeal at KIU

In 2013, I left Buhweju district with a heavy responsibility on my shoulders. I was the first person in my family to reach university level. Scoring 19 points in UACE felt like I had finally broken a cycle of poverty. When I was admitted to Kampala International University under the district bursary scheme, my family celebrated a miracle. We believed the "bursary" was a hand reaching down to pull us up. Instead, it became a weight that nearly drowned me.

The "scheme" covered tuition, but the functional fees carried a hidden, lethal sting. During orientation, no one warned us that a small delay in payment would trigger penalties so aggressive they felt predatory. By my second year, a small balance had mutated into an 800,000 UGX debt. I went from being a brilliant student dreaming of a First Class degree to a beggar, moving from office to office every semester, pleading for an exam card just to sit for papers I had worked so hard to prepare for. Despite paying every semester's functional fees after learning about late payment charges, by the time I finished in 2016, the debt was so huge that there was no way I could clear it in a single swoop.

The financial pressure did not just empty my pockets; it invaded my mind. It is hard to concentrate on Literature and English when you are calculating how many days of food you must skip to pay a "late fee" that grows while you sleep. By 2016, I had finished every course with no retakes, no missed papers but I was a ghost of the man who had entered. I left the gates broken, emaciated in spirit, and carrying a debt that had ballooned.

I spent the next six years in a self imposed exile in Eastern Uganda, teaching for a meager salary. I lived like a hermit, sending every spare coin back to KIU. I was not working for a future; I was working to buy back a past that the university was holding hostage.

In 2022, I finally cleared the last shilling. The relief, however, was short lived. After buying the graduation gown and seeing my name on the notice board, on Tuesday, I did the one thing I had waited nearly a decade to do: I invited my parents. My father is a primary five dropout from the 1960s. For years, he had looked at me with suspicion, wondering if I had truly been studying or if I had wasted the family’s hopes. I wanted that graduation day to be his vindication.

We traveled from the village, slept in Kampala, and walked onto that campus with our heads high.

Then came the horror. When the official graduation book was opened, my name was nowhere to be found. In that moment, the world stopped. I stood there in a gown I had paid for, at a ceremony I had earned, looking at a father who now had "final proof" that his son was a failure. The humiliation was so absolute that the fact I am still alive today is a miracle of God’s grace.

I spent months fighting, sending emails, and knocking on doors that remained closed until I mentioned legal pressure and opportunities abroad. Only then did a "transcript" magically appear. I chose not to attend the later ceremony when my name finally appeared on the list. The joy had been systematically bled out of the experience.

I share this because a "bursary" for the poor should not result in paying more than the rich. A university should be a fountain of knowledge, not a "school for scandal" that exploits the very students it claims to support.

Those nine years left scars that no certificate can cover. This is for every student still trapped in that cycle fighting for a degree they have already earned.

[Gilbert Mukama @GilbertMukama]

@bamunoba24 @PoliceUg @mkituuma @igp_ug1 Great!

[Gilbert Mukama @GilbertMukama]

@Winnie_Byanyima @kizzabesigye1 We keep Dr. Besigye in our prayers.