Ntale Paulo

A pharmaceutical Scientist and Quality Control Analyst .

[Dr Petero wamala @PeteroWamala]

MY SON RETURNED FROM THE UK WITH A MASTER’S DEGREE. THREE YEARS LATER, I WAS STILL GIVING HIM POCKET MONEY

Andrew had always made his mother proud. Good schools in Uganda, a degree, then a Master’s in Marketing and Strategy from the UK.

Tuition. Accommodation. Air tickets. Pounds painfully converted from Uganda shillings.

When he graduated, the photographs travelled through every family WhatsApp group.

Mission accomplished.

Three years later, Andrew was 31 and his mother was still giving him pocket money.

He lived rent-free in a family apartment. She had bought him a Toyota Premio. Sometimes Mummy even provided fuel.

Yet Andrew wasn’t lazy. Every morning he searched for jobs: Marketing Manager. Business Development Manager. Strategy Officer.

He applied and applied.

Once he was offered a sales job.

“Mummy, after everything I studied in Britain, you want me to become a salesman?”

Then his mother met Uncle Rwamiti.

“My son has failed to get a proper job.”

Uncle Rwamiti asked about the apartment, car, fuel and pocket money.

Then he said: “Madam, perhaps your son doesn’t have an unemployment problem. He may have an activation problem.”

A few days later he met Andrew at Horizons Café.

“What can you do?”

“I have a Master’s degree in Marketing and Strategy.”

“I didn’t ask what you studied. I asked what you can do.”

Silence.

“Can you help somebody sell more tomatoes?”

Andrew laughed.

“I am serious. Can you help a small manufacturer find customers?”

“Yes.”

“Then perhaps you are not unemployed. You are waiting for somebody to give your knowledge permission to work.”

Uncle Rwamiti gave him an assignment: stop applying for jobs for two weeks. Find five businesses with sales problems. Choose one problem. Solve a small piece of it.

Andrew found a small furniture manufacturer with beautiful products and terrible marketing.

He improved the photographs, created a catalogue, followed up old enquiries and contacted potential customers.

Within weeks, an order came.

At month’s end the owner handed Andrew UGX 500,000.

Andrew called Uncle Rwamiti excitedly.

“They paid me!”

“Congratulations. Your Master’s degree has finally crossed immigration.”

That UGX 500,000 mattered because somebody other than Mummy had paid Andrew for value created.

One client became two. Two became four.

He made mistakes. He learned. He stopped introducing himself by where he studied and started asking:

“What problem can I solve?”

Eighteen months later, his mother sent him UGX 300,000.

Andrew returned it.

“Why have you sent the money back?”

“Mummy, I’m okay. I don’t need pocket money anymore.”

His mother cried.

Her son wasn’t rich. He had become independent.

Later she asked Uncle Rwamiti: “What did you do to my son?”

“Nothing. I helped him discover that a degree is not a job.”

“And what changed?”

“Problem. Solution. Action. Trust. Repeat.”

Perhaps some educated adult children don’t need another degree, connection or envelope from Mummy.

They need help crossing the bridge between knowing something and making something happen with what they know.

That bridge is Knowledge Activation.

Petero Wamala (Dr)
Making sense of change through ethical storytelling

[Rotaract Club of Luzira - The Wardens @RCTLuzira]

Happy Birthday to our PLD Chair, @NtalePaulo 🎉🎂

Your leadership, dedication, and service continue to inspire us. May this new year bring greater impact, joy, and success. Keep shining!

#WardenBirthdays #RotaractLegacy

[Ntale Paulo @NtalePaulo]

@RCTLuzira Thank you Colleagues 🙏 😊 💓

[Ntale Paulo @NtalePaulo]

@RicOkello @RCTLuzira Thank you Okello

[Dr. Bireete Sarah @SarahBireete]

President akoze atya?

Law can be an instrument of exploitation and oppression or of social justice and progress @KagutaMuseveni
#RejectSovereigntyBill #BakozeBatya

[Ntale Paulo @NtalePaulo]

Interesting 🤔

[Victor NTAMUGABUMWE @ntamugabumwevic]

While the Governor BOU was lecturing the committee on balance of payments, reserves and depreciation of the currency as the economic effect of the Bill, the Certificate of Financial Implication for bill states that the outcome of the implementation will provide a secure environment to implement government programs.

You would imagine that the Technocrats at Ministry of Finance would have flagged such a Certificate before releasing it to the Clerk to Parliament.

[Parliament Watch @pwatchug]

That is the ugly position the government has put us into. There is a big, big problem, ... “What we are doing today, is what should have been done by government.” said Katuntu.

Katuntu stated that from the moment the Governor started his submission, he was grappling with many questions in his mind as to what is going on in Uganda because the scrutiny of the Bill by Parliament should have been done by the Executive through consulting relevant stakeholders so Government agencies don’t come before Parliament to oppose the same bill.

“What we are doing today, is what should have been done by government. Talking to the central bank, talking to FIA, talking to Makerere University, talking to banks, talking to literally people who should be the stakeholder. But from all of them as they have appeared here, they seem to be so confused about who actually brought this sort of legislation here. That is the ugly position the government has put us into. There is a big, big problem,” said Katuntu.

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[Rotaract Club of Luzira - The Wardens @RCTLuzira]

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[Frank Kalungi, MSc., PhDc (Microbiome engineering) @frankkalungi15]

Who heads quality and production units at global pharmaceutical companies and what are their education qualifications?
The NDHPA 2025 needs to be revised to suit qualified persons
@APSU2024 @uspc21 @Parliament_Ug @MinofHealthUG @PharmacistsUg @KagutaMuseveni

[Mudarshiru Bbuye🇺🇬 @BMudarshiru]

I found him very poor at receiving critical feedback. I also think it could be due to technical limitations to discuss issues of public health importance. Remember the "Fees changes for research by NDA discussion"??, same observation as this bill. No intention to receive feedback, nothing at all!!
Anyway that is our Uganda, us in government tend to be defensive even when the masses show us we are on a wrong path

We must do better!!!!

[Ntale Paulo @NtalePaulo]

Perhaps we need to understand what you mean by direct supervision in drug manufacture?

[Ntale Paulo @NtalePaulo]

What we need to know about drug manufacturing.

☆A hospital to a doctor.
☆A Pharmacy to a Pharmacist.
☆When it comes to manufacturing medicines 💊 many different profession are involved (Qualified Persons)

@APSU2024 @uspc21 @EOC_UG @KiryowaKk @KagutaMuseveni

[Abiaz Rwamwiri @AbiazRwamwiri]

You want to know that even the current law, while NDA regulates herbal medicines, we don’t intervene for products that are at community setting (to be consumed by a small group), so yes, if you are going to manufacture drugs for your own consumption, no one will force a law on but if you are going to manufacture for the public, rules apply and that includes a qualified person supervising that process! The only qualified person to supervise drug manufacture is a pharmacist!

[Ntale Paulo @NtalePaulo]

Clause 31 limits a Scientists with a PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from even supervising production, QA & QC just because they have a background in chemistry, biology and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

[Ntale Paulo @NtalePaulo]

@JuliusMwangaB @uspc21 @StateHouseUg @MinofHealthUG @Parliament_Ug @KagutaMuseveni Well said 👏

[Assoc. for Pharmaceutical Scientists of Uganda @APSU2024]

𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗿𝘂𝗴 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 (𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝟯𝟭 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗗𝗛𝗣𝗔 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱)