Daniel Kakuru

[PAU_Uganda @PAU_Uganda]

Press Statement: Appointment of Mr Fred Kabanda as Executive Director of the Petroleum Authority of Uganda

The Board of Directors of the Petroleum Authority of Uganda (PAU) is pleased to inform stakeholders and the public that Mr Fred Kabanda has been appointed Executive Director of the Petroleum Authority of Uganda and will assume office on 1st December 2026, following the successful conclusion of the recruitment and onboarding process.

Mr Kabanda brings extensive experience in Uganda’s petroleum sector, having served in both technical and leadership roles in the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development and the African Development Bank over the last thirty (30) years. Mr Otonga Michael Ochan will continue serving as Acting Executive Director until Mr Kabanda assumes office.

Read the full statement and Mr Kabanda's profile here >> https://t.co/CJH2qsqxwT
#CreatingLastingValue #UgOilJourney

[Thomas Hal Robson-Kanu @RobsonKanu]

This appearance meant more than most 🥹❤️

Australian rugby league player Jai Arrow had retired after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease, just two games short of 100 appearances for his club, South Sydney Rabbitohs.

His club secured special approval for him to start their final two regular-season matches, coming off after the opening seconds. Even the opposition clubs backed it.

And this is the moment he reached his 100th.

When you’ve spent years sharing a dressing room with the lads, walking out alongside them becomes something you almost take for granted. I can only imagine what it meant to Jai to pull that shirt on and join them again.

So pleased he got to have this moment with his club and his family.

Class from everyone who made this happen 👏

(🎥: nrlonnine)

[Global Statistics @Globalstats11]

Largest Airlines by Flights Per Day ✈️

[Hillary bamulinde @Hbamulinde]

Pearl Sweet is Uganda’s new crude oil brand, but for some Ugandan companies, the story of First Oil is anything but sweet.

Nearly 4 years after supplying goods & services that helped build the now gigantic Tilenga Project for @TotalEnergiesUG , several local companies are still waiting to be paid.

They invested, borrowed, employed Ugandans and delivered when the project needed them most. Today, as the country celebrates the approach of First Oil, some of those very businesses are left with only broken balance sheets.

The journey to Pearl Sweet has burried many in bitterness

[Alan Kasujja @kasujja]

There’s a chap on your WhatsApp group.

Usually educated. Spent years mastering something. Communications. Marketing. Strategy, he calls it. Frameworks for everything. Opinions on how it should all be run, delivered like a man who’s never had to run anything.

Picture a village football coach. Barefoot players. More cow dung than grass on the pitch.

And he’s got notes for Arteta. A man who’s actually won leagues, built squads, delivered under real pressure with real consequences for losing.

He’s been to school. Held a few jobs. Seen a couple of countries, and makes sure you know it. It comes up unprompted, in every conversation, like a CV nobody asked for.

But there’s a mismatch. His noise doesn’t match his record. Big volume, small output. You go looking for the results and they’re thin on the ground.

He should be further along than this. With the education, the theories, the confidence. That’s the frustrating part. He’s not incapable. He just picked commentary over contribution, and kept picking it.

Take away the vocabulary and the passport stamps and he’s still a village coach. Loud. Frustrated. Watching from the sideline. No way out of the village leagues, because he studied the game instead of playing it.

Over-educated. Under-delivered. And the only one in the group who hasn’t clocked it.

I hope you had a good weekend. Blessed week ahead.

Do. Don’t just yap.

[ViQtor Davis @Davisthedoc]

UEFA’s position on investors in football got me thinking about healthcare.

Investment can fuel innovation, access and scale. But what happens when shareholder returns become a permanent obligation?

If football is too important to be shaped by investor expectations, shouldn’t we ask an even harder question of healthcare?

Food for thought.

[Son of Teacher @nnaemeka]

That was close 😲

[Brad @BradleyKellard]

Nassim Nicholas Taleb walked into Google and explained what Antifragility is and how the world actually works:

1. The opposite of fragile is not robust. That is the first mistake almost everyone makes. Robust means something does not care about volatility. The true opposite of fragile is something that actually benefits from disorder, volatility, and stress. He calls it antifragile.

2. If you are shipping something fragile you write handle with care on the box. The true opposite of that package would have please mishandle written on it. Something antifragile wants to be mishandled. It gets stronger from it.

3. Fragility is always about nonlinear harm. Jumping ten meters kills you. Jumping ten centimeters a hundred times does not. The harm accelerates disproportionately with size. That acceleration is the mathematical signature of fragility and it can be measured precisely.

4. Anything that has survived long enough to exist today must have this property. If harm were linear you would be destroyed just walking to the office. Everything that persists is built so that small stressors barely touch it but large unexpected shocks destroy it.

5. Large size creates fragility automatically. A hundred million pound project in the UK had thirty percent more cost overruns than a five million pound project doing the same thing. The bigger the stone the more the harm. Size and fragility are inseparable.

6. Governments and institutions make the same mistake constantly. They chase perfect stability and call it good management. But something organic requires variability to survive. Greenspan tried to eliminate all economic volatility. He called it the Great Moderation. What he actually did was allow hidden risk to accumulate invisibly until it exploded all at once.

7. Small forest fires clean out flammable material and prevent catastrophic ones. By eliminating small fires you guarantee a massive one eventually. The same principle applies to economies, banks, and any complex system. Suppressing volatility does not remove risk. It stores it.

8. The only way to make something genuinely robust is to embrace bipolar strategies rather than medium ones. Eighty percent of your portfolio in something safe and twenty percent in something highly speculative is more robust than putting everything in medium risk. The average of extremes beats the mediocre middle.

9. Everything organic communicates with its environment through stressors. Your body needs the gym. Your bones need stress. Your immune system needs exposure. Depriving any living system of the stressors it needs does not protect it. It weakens it invisibly.

10. What does not kill me makes others stronger is closer to the truth than what does not kill me makes me stronger. When a system gets stronger under stress it is usually because the weaker components were destroyed, not because the survivors individually improved. The system improves through the death of its fragile parts.

11. Trial and error is not the opposite of knowledge. It is a form of knowledge with a convex payoff. You lose little when you are wrong and gain enormously when you are right. That asymmetry is what makes tinkering more powerful than theoretical planning in unpredictable environments.

12. Most of what we attribute to theoretical knowledge actually came from tinkering that was dressed up afterward as having been scientifically planned. The Romans built extraordinary things for centuries without ever having heard of Euclidean geometry. Technology routinely precedes the science that supposedly explains it.

13. The fragilista is Taleb's name for the person who denies antifragility and causes damage through that denial. Bureaucrats, central planners, academics, and policy makers who overstabilize systems from the top down are fragilistas. They remove the volatility that systems need and call it improvement.

14. Seneca, the wealthiest man in the ancient world, trained himself every day to wake up as if he had lost everything. He would deliberately live as if he were on a shipwreck to ensure he always had more upside than downside. Having more to gain than to lose from random events is the definition of antifragility in personal life.

15. In medicine, convexity matters more than people realize. If you are very ill the potential benefit of treatment vastly outweighs the risk, so you should see ten doctors not one. If you are mildly ill the risks of intervention almost certainly outweigh the modest benefits. The problem is that mildly ill patients are five times more numerous than severely ill ones, which is exactly who pharmaceutical companies focus on.

16. Removing something unnatural from your life has almost no side effects. Adding something artificial always has multiplicative hidden effects. In complex systems less is almost always more. The via negativa, improving by subtraction rather than addition, is consistently underestimated.

17. The real ethical crisis of modern times is that the people making decisions do not bear the consequences of those decisions. Bankers take the upside. Society takes the downside. Economists give broken advice and face no consequences when it fails. Nothing improves in any field where the people who are wrong are not harmed by being wrong.

18. Time is the ultimate detector of fragility. Whatever is fragile will eventually be broken by time. Whatever has survived for a long time has demonstrated antifragility and will likely survive longer still. A book that has been read for three thousand years will probably be read for three thousand more. A technology that is forty years old has at least forty more years ahead of it.

19. The only way to know you are alive and not a machine is that you benefit from variability. If you like variation and gain from disorder you are antifragile. If you require peace and predictability to function you are fragile. It is as simple and as profound as that.

Before you go, can we stay in touch?

I'd love to share one email with you every Sunday that'll challenge how you think about business, money and freedom.

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[abayo albert @abayoalbert]

Climbed the furthest point one can get from the Centre of the earth. Its the closest point on earth to the sun. I know Obrien was more than a friend, I know how much you love rugby and the fraternity it is. These two souls may be gone, but they r among the stars.

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

Crazy take from Claude

[Hillary bamulinde @Hbamulinde]

Before you save for the future, make sure you've eaten today.

Not every investment needs an account. Some belong in your health, your family, your friendships and your peace of mind.

A future worth reaching is one you don't have to sacrifice your entire present to build

[Daniel Kakuru @danielkakuru]

https://t.co/mAy3YCxT1m

[DBwambale @TheMutaD]

The Total Energies Tilenga crude oil Central Processing Facility. Northern Uganda. The people who executed this must have great tales about the logistics of it.

[Hillary bamulinde @Hbamulinde]

As Uganda prepares to celebrate first oil, buried beneath the headlines are local contractors and suppliers crushed by years of unpaid invoices for work done at @TotalEnergiesUG's Tilenga project

A country speaking in billions shouldn't let its own citizens survive on resilience & prayer
@PAU_Uganda
@MEMD_Uganda

[Oyewole Isaac @snoyesnr3]

The Architecture of GTBANK

A thread

The last one definitely gives Avengers, that Ajah oh will be forever GOATED. If your Architecture is not innovative you are still behind

[Tabz @NinyeTabz]

Now that you’re all looking at my timeline for updates, let me use this chance to ask you kindly to retweet this shoe until it reaches the person in whose foot it fits!

FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!

[George Njoroge @georgenjoroge_]

DEAR KENYAN MALE GOLFER,

I need to introduce you to someone you have never properly met.

Your caddie.

The quiet young man who carries your bag, hands you the right club, reads the green for you, finds your lost balls and says "good shot sir" even when it wasn't.

That man.

He has a phone.

He has a WhatsApp group.

It is not called "How Did I Do."

It is called something far more innocent.

But what is discussed in that group I’ve seen

So far as at now, what I’ve seen would end several marriages, ten board memberships, several church eldership and a very prominent law firm partnership before Tuesday morning.

Your caddie has been carrying two things every Saturday.

Your clubs.

And your secrets.

He knows which members remove their wedding rings before the back nine and put them back on before the car park.

He knows which "corporate golf day in Naivasha" had zero corporate and maximum golf.

He knows who tips triple specifically for silence.

He knows the difference between a man searching for a lost ball and a man who hit that ball deliberately into the thick rough on hole 14 because the 4 ball partnership is a swingers group.

He knows because he watched you do it.

Three weeks in a row.

With improving accuracy.

He knows the man who lectures everyone on course etiquette and integrity is the same man who asks him to "take the long way round 12" while certain conversations happen that have nothing to do with the scorecard.

He knows the pastor who prays loudly at the first tee.

He especially knows about the pastor.

He will not say what he knows about the pastor.

But when the other caddies mention hole 14 his face does something involuntary.

Gentlemen your caddie earns between 1,000 and 2,500 shillings to carry your bag.

For that amount he has seen things that a therapist would charge you 15,000 shillings per session to process.

He has said nothing.

Because silence is also a service.

But caddies talk to each other.

And what travels through the caddie network of golf courses caddies is more accurate and more detailed than anything that has ever appeared in this timeline.

They compare notes.

They have been comparing notes for years.

The only reason your secrets are still secrets is because nobody has asked the caddie the right questions.

I am asking.

As an elder and the Lord's personal agent on these fairways I must warn you.

The most dangerous man on your golf course is not your playing partner.

It is the quiet young man walking two steps behind you.

He has seen your real handicap.

It has nothing to do with your scorecard.

Don't say the servant of the Lord didn't warn you. 😐

#MasculinitySaturday

[Hillary bamulinde @Hbamulinde]

As @PAU_Uganda prepares to celebrate Uganda’s first oil milestone later this year, it is important that the industry also reflects on the growing concerns surrounding delayed payments to local suppliers and contractors on the @TotalEnergiesUG Tilenga project.

Several Ugandan companies that answered the national call for local content participation now face severe financial distress, foreclosures & possible collapse after delivering goods and services without timely compensation.

The success of Uganda’s Oil & Gas sector must not only be measured by first oil but also by how sustainably it empowers and protects indigenous businesses that invested heavily to support the dream.

[Hillary bamulinde @Hbamulinde]

For nearly 5 yrs, over 60 Ugandan local contractors & suppliers who helped lay the foundation for @TotalEnergiesUG Tilenga oil field have waited for payment totaling close to $10 million.

Behind these numbers are businesses that borrowed heavily, families that depended on those incomes, employees who lost jobs, and entrepreneurs whose dreams slowly collapsed under debt and silence.

Some of the very people who believed in Uganda’s oil promise may never live to witness first oil.

When people speak of the "oil curse", they often imagine distant theories.
For these companies, it has already been painfully real.
@PAU_Uganda @UNOC_UG

[Well-known Adnan @He_is_Adnan]

You can be ambitious and fully at peace with where you are right now. Ambition is about direction, not dissatisfaction.

You can want more without suffering over what you don't yet have.

[Justice Esther Kitimbo Kisaakye @JusticeKisaakye]

Message to the Chairperson and Members of the Uganda Electoral Commission @UgandaEC

Justice Byabakama,

On 17th January 2026, you orally declared the final results of the 2026 Uganda Presidential Elections.

Article 61(d) of the Constitution of Uganda requires the Electoral Commission to ascertain, publish and declare in writing under its seal the results of the elections. Announcements made through public media do not satisfy this Constitutional requirement.

This requirement must be read together with Article 1 of the Constitution, which vests sovereignty in the people of Uganda and mandates that all authority be exercised in their name and for their benefit.

I have checked the official Electoral Commission website https://t.co/BFOmumRpZR and the https://t.co/yA9BEB2fcT which publishes the Uganda Gazette and have not found any publication of the 2026 Presidential Election results.

As the body entrusted with the responsibility and which conducted these elections, the Electoral Commission is required to provide the people of Uganda with clear answers to the following questions:

1. How did the Electoral Commission ensure there was no ballot stuffing and multiple voting in light of the nationwide failure of the biometric machines?

2. What steps has the Electoral Commission taken to address videos online showing its officials, members of security forces, and other civillians ticking multiple ballots and/or stuffing multiple ballots at different polling stations or at other venues?

3. How did the Electoral Commission ascertain the results of the Presidential Elections within 48 hours in the absence of duly signed and transmitted Declaration of Results (DR) Forms from each polling station?

4. How were the Presidential Election results transmitted to the National Tallying Centre during the nationwide internet shutdown, and what verifiable audit trail exists to demonstrate the integrity, chain of custody, and authenticity of those results?

5. Has the Electoral Commission published the 2026 Uganda Presidential Election results for each polling station?

6. If so, where has the Electoral Commission published these results and when was that publication made?

7. If the publication of these results has not been made, why has the Electoral Commission not complied with this clear mandatory Constitutional requirement, 10 days after your announcement? Such a publication would also enable Ugandan citizens who wish to access these results, to do so.

8. What steps is the Electoral Commission taking to recover the 69 million United States Dollars of taxpayers’ money expended on non-functioning biometric machines, including any civil recovery actions against suppliers and Electoral Commission officials involved in the procurement, approval and testing of this equipment prior to their dispatch to the respective polling stations?

I am asking these questions as a citizen of Uganda and taking into account that the Electoral Commission bears a positive and continuing duty under our Constitution to conduct elections that are not only free and fair but which are also transparent and verifiable through the results declared.

Where access to information has been restricted as was the case with the nationwide internet shutdown, the obligation to provide verifiable quantitative and qualitative data rests squarely with the Electoral Commission as the declaring authority. Transparency in such circumstances is not discretionary. It is a constitutional obligation.

The burden to prove compliance with its constitutional obligations rests with the Electoral Commission and not with the candidates who contested in the elections, the Ugandans who voted, those who opted not to vote, or those who were rendered unable to vote.

Elections belong to the people, not to those who administer them.

FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY

Justice Dr. Esther Kitimbo Kisaakye.
Former Justice of the Supreme Court of Uganda. January 27, 2026

cc: The People Of Uganda