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[onyango emmanuel @onyangoemmanuel]

Dear Mr. Aliko Dangote @DangoteGroup,
Your Excellency President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni @KagutaMuseveni,
I write to you both with profound respect for your visionary leadership in shaping Africa’s energy future. Mr. Dangote, your pioneering refinery achievements have set a continental benchmark for self-reliance and scale. Your Excellency, your steadfast commitment to Uganda’s oil and gas sector continues to unlock transformative opportunities for the region.
Even with a world-class coastal refining footprint serving export markets, I believe Uganda’s Hoima refinery project represents not a competing venture but a compelling strategic complement – one that merits serious consideration as a high-return play within a unified East and Central African energy architecture, powerfully amplified by the East African Community (EAC) Customs Union.
At its core, the Ugandan refinery–planned at 60,000 barrels per day (bpd) with potential for phased expansion–sits directly atop proven crude reserves in the Albertine Graben.
It is embedded at the heart of the land-locked Great Lakes region, within a mature ecosystem: the Kabaale industrial park, modern road networks, an international airport, and seamless connectivity to one of the continent’s most dynamic but ready hinterland markets.
Uganda alone consumes approximately 40,000–45,000 bpd of refined petroleum products, currently met through imports costing the country roughly $2 billion annually in foreign exchange. Surrounding this are vibrant, fast-growing demand centers: Rwanda (approximately 10,000 bpd), eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (a substantial share of the national ~25,000 bpd), South Sudan (~12,000 bpd), western Kenya (part of Kenya’s total ~115,000 bpd consumption), and broader East African demand exceeding 416,000 bpd across the region.
Uganda’s investment framework further strengthens the case. Strategic projects such as this qualify for a 10-year corporate income tax holiday (especially within industrial parks or free zones), full exemptions from import duties and VAT on essential equipment, machinery, and inputs for oil and gas development, accelerated capital allowances, and other facilitative measures under the Investment Code and East African Community Customs Management Act.
These incentives, combined with government equity participation through the Uganda National Oil Company (up to 40% stake in the joint venture) and a supportive Host Government Agreement, significantly de-risk entry while accelerating returns.
Crucially, the EAC Customs Union–established in 2005 and now encompassing eight Partner States with a combined population of over 330 million and a rapidly expanding single market–unlocks seamless, duty-free access for refined products originating in Uganda across the entire bloc.
Under the Union, goods that meet rules of origin move tariff-free throughout Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Somalia, eliminating internal barriers and leveraging the Single Customs Territory to slash transit times and logistics costs.
At the same time, the Common External Tariff (CET) protects regional production by imposing duties (typically 10% or higher under the four-band structure for mineral fuels and related products) on refined petroleum imports from outside the EAC.
Harmonized petroleum product standards and policies further reduce non-tariff barriers, simplify operations, and create a predictable, investor-friendly environment that promotes cross-border supply chains and economies of scale.
The mutual benefits are substantial and quantifiable. For Uganda and its EAC neighbors, local refining under the Customs Union eliminates the expensive “last-mile” logistics burden from distant coastal ports–reducing transport, handling, and import-premium costs that currently inflate pump prices.
Conservative estimates suggest fuel prices could fall by 15–25% in inland markets through direct proximity to supply, while Uganda alone could conserve nearly its entire $2 billion annual forex outflow on refined products, strengthening the shilling, easing balance-of-payments pressure, and freeing resources for infrastructure and social spending.
The project is projected to create thousands of direct and indirect jobs during construction and operations, spur downstream industries (petrochemicals, fertilizers, power generation), and enhance regional energy security against global shocks–all while boosting intra-EAC trade, which has already grown 13%+ in recent years and now accounts for roughly 15% of the bloc’s total trade.
For you, Mr. Dangote, this represents a rare opportunity to anchor a strategic presence at the commercial heart of East and Central Africa. Rather than merely exporting crude or serving maritime flows from the coast, a stake here–backed by the full protections and market access of the EAC Customs Union–plants a flag in high-growth, under-served demand centers. It delivers refined products where people live and economies are expanding fastest, diversifies your refining portfolio across complementary vantage points, builds intimate market intelligence, and unlocks synergies in regional supply chains.
As Your Excellency has rightly emphasized, these are not rival bets but mutually reinforcing pillars of one integrated regional energy system: one at the water’s edge for scale and reach, the other embedded in the hinterland where demand is immediate and resilient.
In short, this is more than a refinery; it is a gateway–fortified by Uganda’s incentives and the EAC Customs Union–to accelerated industrialization, energy independence, and shared prosperity across East and Central Africa. The economics are compelling, the incentives investor-friendly, and the timing–amid rising regional consumption and your own demonstrated interest in East African energy infrastructure–ideal.
I offer these reflections as an admirer of your respective achievements, confident that strategic collaboration between your expertise and Uganda’s resources, under the enabling framework of the EAC Customs Union, could redefine the continent’s energy narrative for generations to come.
With the highest esteem and anticipation for the progress you will continue to drive together,
Respectfully,
Emmanuel Onyango
[phone]/774722000
[email protected], [email protected]

[onyango emmanuel @onyangoemmanuel]

@Ma_Cafui @Grok, why are they torturing them?

[onyango emmanuel @onyangoemmanuel]

4/4 Sixty percent of surplus stays with the Eco-River cooperatives. Women and youth hold the steward floor. Zero debt on the household plot. A 550-acre Tororo Climate SEZ buys the legal biomass. Your Excellency – the plume stops the day the bank is planted and the home is paid. #JustGreenLeap

[onyango emmanuel @onyangoemmanuel]

@volcanaorg 1/ In 2015 a single overflight caught Eastern Uganda bleeding. Chocolate-brown plumes leaving the Malaba and the Elgon rivers, riding the Victoria Nile. That was not weather. That was soil, fish levy and unpaid tax leaving the country. #JustGreenLeap

[onyango emmanuel @onyangoemmanuel]

3/4 Same bend, engineered future. Bamboo–vetiver–legume shield. Seven-layer food forest. Poultry tower set back from the water. Glass-clear flow. Sediment that once fled becomes soil carbon and taxable throughput. The Treasury already pays for the flood. Titles cost less.

[onyango emmanuel @onyangoemmanuel]

6/6 Cook inside the cheap window. Do not go past 150. And keep the power on. Otherwise the units rush out like they heard a rumour, and you are left ironing in the dark, negotiating with a torch.

[onyango emmanuel @onyangoemmanuel]

1/6 UEDCL has published the Q4 postcard. Replies are from Gulu, Kisaasi, Kampala and Hoima Road, all asking why the lights are the ones on a lunch break. A tariff is a price for units. It is not a promise they will arrive.

[Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Ltd @UEDCLTD]

We hereby inform our esteemed customers of the Electricity End-User Tariff Rates for the Fourth Quarter (October to December) of 2026 as approved by @ERA_Uganda.

#UEDCLinService #LightingUpYourWorld

[onyango emmanuel @onyangoemmanuel]

5/6 Against last quarter this is a hold, not a cut: Q3 was the same 250 / 779.4 / 412 / 779.4. Against a flat old domestic rate, lifeline and the cooking band are the mercy; units 16–80 are the sting, which is why a Shs30,000 habit now feels like Shs50,000. Rwanda’s upper household band sits near this average. Kenya’s sticker is lower until the fixed charges join the chat.

[onyango emmanuel @onyangoemmanuel]

6/6 Pass the Bill. Then make the tracks kiss. A Pearl with no gate is just a very round excuse. Tororo awake, Malaba open, rice on time. The ocean can wait its turn.

[onyango emmanuel @onyangoemmanuel]

Kudos, President Museveni. Keep this, we want more A Thread:
1/6 Tororo has been sleeping through its own audition. Uganda just put the Railways Bill on the order paper, which is how a land-locked country stops writing love letters to the sea and starts charging rent on the doorway.

[Parliament Watch @pwatchug]

🇺🇬 President Yoweri Museveni said heavy cargo would move off roads and onto rail. The Uganda Railways Bill, 2026, included in the legislative programme attached to his address, is now listed for Government business on 6 to 8 October 2026.

Delivering his State of the Nation Address at Kololo on 4 June, Museveni said Government was revamping metre-gauge rail and building standard-gauge rail, alongside petroleum pipelines.

“That leaves the roads for only passengers and light cargo,” he said.

Annex 2 lists the Bill as item 16 under the Ministry of Works and Transport. Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja listed it first in her statement to Parliament dated 1 October, announcing business for the succeeding week.

Photos: @Parliament_Ug

[onyango emmanuel @onyangoemmanuel]

5/6 Benefits, in plain cloth: factories keep working capital, millers get maize on a timetable, steel leaves as product not dirt, and the weighbridge finally gets a lunch break. Macro version: a lower import bill, slower road decay, and a corridor that can look the Central route in the eye.

[Tripti Tripathi @triptitips]

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[Global Pulse @Globalstats_77]

Top 30 Countries & Their Most Famous Scientists

🇩🇪 Germany — Albert Einstein
🇬🇧 UK — Isaac Newton
🇮🇹 Italy — Galileo Galilei
🇫🇷 France — Louis Pasteur
🇵🇱 Poland — Marie Curie
🇷🇸 Serbia — Nikola Tesla
🇺🇸 United States — Thomas Edison
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom — Charles Darwin
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🇦🇹 Austria — Erwin Schrödinger
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🇯🇵 Japan — Hideki Yukawa
🇮🇳 India — C. V. Raman
🇵🇰 Pakistan — Abdus Salam
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[Joshua Pi'Rwot @pirwot]

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(Let me know what I missed!)

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