RUFORUM Executive Secretary visits Gulu University

Prof. Patrick Okori, the Executive Secretary of the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) on Monday,15th June 2026 paid a courtesy on Gulu University Management.
Prof. Okori told the university management that Gulu University graduates he has interfaced with are good in community mobilisation and according to him is an asset in the community transformational agenda of the university. He challenged Gulu university on continuing to enforce government vision and interest for producing graduates who are job creators and not job seekers.

He also informed the university that his institution has a plan of working with Gulu university closely on matters related with refugees.

Prof. Openjuru, George Ladaah the University Vice- Chancellor welcomed the Executive Secretary and thanked him for the visit and called it a big credit to the university as a partner of RUFORUM.

“Our partnership with RUFORUM over the years has also enhanced our visibility internationally and many organisations are benchmarking with us and we are grateful”. Said the Vice-Chancellor.

Prof. Openjuru told Prof. Okori that universities and teaching institutions in Uganda are getting frustrations in attempt to produce job creators with harsh treatment of the young innovators from institutions of learning by regulatory authorities such as Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) and Uganda Bureau of Standards and Uganda Registration Service Bureau among others.

“The entrepreneurial skills and job creation knowledge we impart in them is not being utilised since they are over regulated hence young innovators who are job creators get frustrated and become job seekers”. Prof. Openjuru remarked.

He added that the Government of Uganda should relax the toxic regulatory environment that is unfair to young innovators, killing the zeal of job creation amongst the young population.

Gulu University is currently among African Universities implementing TAGDeV.2.0 as a partner of RUFORUM and Mastercard Foundation.