Today, I joined the Board, Management and project stakeholders of the Uganda Heart Institute for the Mid-Term Review of the Uganda Heart Institute Specialized Centre Project to assess progress and agreed on key actions to ensure successful completion of this flagship investment. Once completed, this will expand Uganda’s capacity to provide specialized heart diagnosis, treatment, surgery, training and research, reducing the need for patients to seek care abroad.
The project has made good progress, although a few implementation challenges remain. I am confident these will be resolved through continued collaboration, enabling us to deliver the project within the planned timelines and open this modern Heart Centre to provide world-class heart care for all Ugandans. #MOHatWork
Today I shared my vision for the Ministry with @mofpedU top management team as i embark on executing my mandate.
While chairing the maiden top management meeting, I noted that my commitment is to transition Uganda from incremental growth to exponential economic take-off through these five pillars.
1️⃣ The USD 500 billion target. We shall relentlessly execute the tenfold growth strategy to turn Uganda into a 500 billion-dollar-economy.
2️⃣Enforcing absolute discipline. We shall shift the Ministry culture from spending money to enforcing results.
I will also demand strict budget discipline, aggressive procurement reforms and rigorous value for money audits on all public projects.
3️⃣Aggressive revenue mobilization. We shall implement the second domestic revenue mobilization strategy to push our revenue to GDP ratio to at least 20%, cutting external dependency.
4️⃣Presidential wealth creation agenda. The Ministry will prioritise funding and tracking the commercialization of the smallholders to ensure every Ugandan enters the money economy.
5️⃣Smart oil governance. We shall manage our impending oil revenues with bulletproof institutional guardrails and oil revenue will be used to build infrastructure.
The goal is for Uganda to become an oil producer but never an oil dependent economy.
Happy birthday Maama Janet. I thank her for teaching me and my sisters the art of fighting. I have never seen a better fighter than her. Happy birthday Mummy.
CRISTIANOOOOO
This is what he Does!!!!
Silencing doubters after the last week, not team player ffs!
Another World Cup, Another Goal 👊🏽⚽️🔥
#FIFAWORLDCUP | #CR7 | #FIFAWORLDCUP2026
GGOOBI MEETS PRESIDENT OF BADEA:
On the sidelines of the Annual Meetings of the Islamic Development Bank,2026 in Baku, Azerbaijan, PSST Dr. @rggoobi met the President of the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA),H.E Abdullah Khalil AlMusaibeeh.
@rggoobi thanked BADEA for the support extended to Uganda especially in the health sector. The Bank is financing the construction and equipping of the Uganda Heart Institute in Naguru in partnership with OPEC Fund for International Development & Saudi Fund for Development.
BADEA is also financing the refurbishment and equipping Bugiri General
Dr. Ggoobi thanked the Bank for the continued support to the Uganda Development Bank. They have so far financed seven lines of credit both directly to @UDB_Official and through Government. Currently BADEA is financing @UDB_Official with two lines of credit through Government worth USD 50 million and USD 100 million from the Public and Private windows of the Bank respectively.
The President of the BADEA thanked the PSST and @GovUganda for the continued cooperation and pledged further support to Uganda’s development agenda.
HOW BORROWED MONEY HAS BEEN SPENT OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS:
Uganda’s total public debt by December,2025 stood at USD 34.86 billion, equivalent to approximately Shs 126.19 trillion. Of this, external debt amounted to USD 15.84 billion while domestic debt was USD 19.02 billion. This translates into a debt to-GDP ratio of approximately 53.0 percent.
Over the past 10 years, Uganda’s debt has financed strategic investments that are transforming the productive capacity of our economy.
As we engage in post-budget dialogues, informed debates should be on both the money borrowed and how it has been used.
These investments include:
✅️Integrated transport infrastructure – 31.1 percent
✅️Electricity infrastructure – 19.3 percent
✅️Water infrastructure – 10.3 percent
✅️Agro-industrialisation – 9.2 percent
✅️Education and health infrastructure – 7.7 percent
✅️Housing and urban development – 6.3 percent
✅️Industrial parks and industrial development – 2.0 percent
✅️Other investments such as national backbone infrastructure to extend internet, STI, and regional development – 7.0 percent.
Uganda’s public debt remains sustainable and is projected to stay so over the medium and long term.
Find more information here on the performance of the economy 👇👇👇
https://t.co/Vt2JGHxutU
Today, I launched a campaign to tackle traffic congestion in Kampala by promoting modern transport solutions, including proposed hydrogen-powered trains and elevated tram systems. I also met with key stakeholders to discuss investment, infrastructure development.