On the Edge: Why 2026 Could be a Make-or-Break Year for Uganda Airlines’ Jennifer Bamuturaki and UEDCL’s Paul Mwesigwa Uganda Airlines’ Jennifer Bamuturaki and UEDCL’s Paul Mwesigwa are navigating institutions weighed down by legacy problems, yet judged by today’s expectations. As politics heats up and public patience thins, their futures may depend less on what they inherited and more on how convincingly they respond now.

If there are any Ugandan CEOs in the hot seat, then it is Uganda Airlines’ Jennifer Bamuturaki and Uganda Electricity Distribution Limited’s Paul Mwesigwa. They run two strategic state enterprises, and both are under intense pressure at exactly the moment when politics, performance, and public frustration are converging. Some of the problems they face are inherited. Others stem from decisions made on their watch. But in state enterprises, where accountability is often as political as it is managerial, leaders can be sacrificed, sometimes not because they caused the crisis, but because they are the most visible symbol of it. A…