Uganda, April 5 -- BY

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Gen Wilson Mbadi Mbasu, the new state minister for trade at the Ministry of Trade, Industries, and Cooperatives yesterday assumed the office with a pledge to build a team that will work hard to deliver Uganda to attain a $500 billion economy in the next 10 years.

"I will be very, very ready to work with everybody and I very graciously accept to take the mantle from Harriet Ntabazi so that I can also make my contribution, running the same direction, not the opposite direction, probably not at the same speed," he said.

He said as the former Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), he was a net spender but now has been thrown into the deep end of looking for resources which he hopes to achieve.

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