The confidence of the President
The office of the Senior Presidential Advisor on Agri Business and Value Addition Development exists to carry the President's programme into the country. This chapter sets out the charge the President has given, the service that answers it, and the sources in which each of them can be checked.
The charge, in the President’s own words
These are the President's own words, taken from the official record of his addresses. They are the terms on which the office is charged, and they are set out here so that the standard the office answers to is a matter of public record rather than of description.
In this Kisanja, I do not want any excuses. The challenge is socio-economic transformation. Peasants must disappear from Uganda; they must become either middle class or skilled middle class.
Exporting raw materials is a strategic blunder. Let us take gold as an example. If you export a kilogram of unprocessed gold, 84 percent pure, recently you have been getting USD 60,000, if the gold is processed to 99.9 percent purity, you get USD168,000. Look at the difference in value.
I am really sick and tired of parasitism and that is why I said, in this kisanja no more sleep.
In this kisanja, we are going to ensure all our people join, especially through agriculture, but also industry, skilling, and manufacturing.
As reported of him in person
Two lines in which the President is said to have spoken of him personally were reported at the time. They are set out here as a press report, and they are not part of any official State House release.
“Wherever he went and addressed public rallies among the urban poor, the President introduced him as his man in charge of value addition, youth development in agriculture and industrialisation.”
Source: The Story of Dr. Kisanja & How He Won Trust To Become M7's Blue-Eyed Boy, Mulenger News
“The President praised him as his chief disciple on pillar number five of his ten point programme on sustainable socio-economic transformation.”
Source: The Story of Dr. Kisanja & How He Won Trust To Become M7's Blue-Eyed Boy, Mulenger News
The road to the office
The role has always been reserved for trusted servants of the President. This is the record of how he came to hold it, in the order it happened, with the source for each step.
- 2001Campaign work, Maganjo, KawempeHe was known here as the young man who gave the President's man the name "Dr Kisanja", and it is the name he still carries. He comes from Bukunja in Buikwe district.Source: The Story of Dr. Kisanja & How He Won Trust To Become M7's Blue-Eyed Boy, Mulenger News
- 2009Teaching assistant, Nkumba UniversityAfter his first degree he took a teaching post at Nkumba University, the same year he enrolled for a master's degree.Source: The Story of Dr. Kisanja & How He Won Trust To Become M7's Blue-Eyed Boy, Mulenger News
- 2012Master’s degree completedHe completed his master's degree in 2012, and continued to teach and to take on young ones at Nkumba.Source: The Story of Dr. Kisanja & How He Won Trust To Become M7's Blue-Eyed Boy, Mulenger News
- 2013Office of the Intelligence Services CoordinatorHe served in the Office of the Intelligence Services Coordinator, as the personal assistant to Gen. David Sejusa.Source: The Story of Dr. Kisanja & How He Won Trust To Become M7's Blue-Eyed Boy, Mulenger News
- 2014Operation Wealth CreationOperation Wealth Creation was designed in consultation with him, and he was deployed to work with Gen. Salim Saleh to operationalise it, mobilising the urban poor across the Kampala metropolitan area.Source: The Story of Dr. Kisanja & How He Won Trust To Become M7's Blue-Eyed Boy, Mulenger News
- 2014 to 2015President’s Assistant on special dutiesHe was appointed to coordinate the intervention on depleted lake fisheries, and to track the President's pending pledges, as the President's Assistant in charge of special duties.Source: The Story of Dr. Kisanja & How He Won Trust To Become M7's Blue-Eyed Boy, Mulenger News
- 2016Special operations office, BugolobiAfter the 2016 elections the President recommended him to Gen. MK, and he worked at the special operations office in Bugolobi.Source: The Story of Dr. Kisanja & How He Won Trust To Become M7's Blue-Eyed Boy, Mulenger News
- 2019Doctor of Philosophy completedHe completed his doctorate in 2019. The discipline of the doctorate is not published by any source the office can check, and the office will publish it when it is confirmed.Source: The Story of Dr. Kisanja & How He Won Trust To Become M7's Blue-Eyed Boy, Mulenger News
- 2021Cleared by the PresidentIn 2021 the President personally cleared him of the allegations brought against him, and he returned to the President's service.Source: The Story of Dr. Kisanja & How He Won Trust To Become M7's Blue-Eyed Boy, Mulenger News
- 2024Private Secretary to the PresidentHe was Private Secretary to the President for Youth, in Agriculture, Value Addition and Export Promotion, an office he held through the demonstration farm launches and the skilling centres of 2024.Source: Demonstration Farm Launched In Wakiso, State House Uganda
- February 2025Senior Presidential Advisor on Agribusiness and Value AdditionHis elevation to the office of Senior Presidential Advisor was reported on 19 February 2025, placing the office at the same level as the senior advisers the President has kept close.Source: Museveni promotes Dr. Hillary Kisanja to senior advisor, PML Daily
What the office says in return
The President sets the direction and the country sets the pace. The office exists to turn a directive into a demonstration farm, a skilling centre, a processing contract and a household income.
Everything published on this site is dated and sourced. That is not a formality. An office that carries the President's programme has to be able to show what it did, when it did it and where the record of it can be opened.