According to a 2022 study by Deloitte, Uganda’s fintech ecosystem is thriving due to high skills availability, growing digital literacy, and the need for alternative financial inclusion models.

In the end, technocrats will have to weight their decisions critically to avoid saving the government a few billions of shillings in a merger while incurring huge losses in critical dip in digital transformation of the economy.

At least a dozen people, the majority of them from western parts of the country, have been killed by lightning strikes this year alone.