A site visit by SPA Hajjat Hadijah Namyalo to Kiira Municipality has unearthed one of the Office of the National Chairman’s most compelling empowerment success stories.
When the Office of the National Chairman handed Wasswa Abdul Karim Tamale 200 chickens and feed for 400 chicks in June 2023, critics were watching with scepticism.
Two years later, the 44 year old resident of Kitukutwe Village in Kiira Municipality has silenced every doubter, running a thriving poultry enterprise of 7,000 birds on two acres of land that generates UGX 12 million in income every 35 days.
The remarkable transformation has been documented, Tuesday during a monitoring visit to Tamale’s farm by SPA Hajjat Hadijah Namyalo, head of the Office of the National Chairman, whose empowerment programme provided the original capital that set the enterprise in motion.
Tamale, speaking during the site visit, credited personal discipline and hands-on management as the engine behind his growth. He offered a simple but firm piece of advice to anyone considering poultry farming, personal monitoring is non-negotiable.
The farmer now employs five people directly and extends opportunities to other community members, making his enterprise a neighbourhood economic anchor.
He expressed deep appreciation for Hajjat Namyalo’s role in driving the ONC empowerment agenda, and appealed to President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to continue strengthening the ONC programme through her leadership. “She has been exceptional in implementing the empowerment programme and championing the President’s agenda to uplift all Ugandans from poverty,” he said.
For Hajjat Namyalo, the visit was vindication. She recalled the resistance that greeted the programme at its launch. “We started this programme in 2023 and faced a lot of criticism from people, but today there is testimony.
Every after 35 days, Karim gets an income of 12 million Ugandan shillings,” she said.
She used the moment to issue a direct challenge to Uganda’s youth, urging them to take advantage of empowerment programmes extended by President Museveni’s government rather than dismissing available opportunities.
Hard work, she emphasised, transforms modest beginnings into sustainable livelihoods.
Tamale’s story, she adds, is precisely the model the ONC empowerment programme was designed to replicate, a small capital injection, disciplined management, and a beneficiary committed enough to multiply what they received many times over.
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