Chris Ssengendo

WE ARE HIRING!!! If you are a developer who loves turning ideas into real, impactful products, this is your sign. At SPADES Insurance Brokers Limited, we are looking for individuals who don’t just write code but think in systems, solve problems and bring ideas to life. If that sounds like you, we’d love to have you on this journey. Email : info@spades.co.ug

Uganda Migrant Workers Insurance Scheme (UMWIS) @DIASPORAUG48531 @DIASPORACONNEC2 @UAHFORUM

Working abroad comes with opportunities and risks. If you’re planning to travel, this is something you shouldn’t ignore. The Uganda Migrant Workers’ Insurance Scheme (UMWIS) is designed to support you and your family in case of emergencies while you’re outside Uganda. For just UGX. 150,000 (1 Year) OR UGX. 250,000 (2 Years), you’re not just getting insurance, you are securing peace of mind for yourself and your loved ones back home. UMWIS ensures that no matter what happens, you and your family are not left helpless. This is not just insurance. It’s a safety net for your journey abroad. Tap umwis.spades.co.ug/umwis to register or confirm your certificate’s authenticity. Here’s how UMWIS supports you 👇 #SpadesInsuranceBrokersLtd #UMWIS

Partnership Update: SPADES (@Spades_IBL), announces a partnership with My Guardian (@CentreGuardian) — under the Uganda Migrant Workers Insurance Scheme (UMWIS) to provide comprehensive safety, wellness, and Insurance Protection for Ugandans working abroad. @DocCharlesMaina

🎤 PANELIST SPOTLIGHT: With 14+ years of experience across insurance and banking, @CSsengendo1, CEO of SPADES Insurance Brokers, is one of the key voices shaping Uganda’s financial services landscape. From pioneering bancassurance policy to mentoring the next generation at the Insurance Training College, he’s driven by one goal: making finance work better for more people. On July 29, he will join the 8th Annual Bankers Conference to unpack how remittances and innovation can unlock greater financial protection and trust for Ugandans. 📍 Serena Hotel Kampala 🎟️ Strictly by invitation, but we’re streaming it live here: [youtube.com/live/eCL0bgF_h…]

@JKakeeto Grt piece @JKakeeto. True leaders should be able to take bold decisions and ask the hard questions. Can't agree more ... 👌👌👌

Gary Keller in his podcast Think Like a CEO tackles a very important aspect about being a leader, Charging the Storm. This is inspired by the behaviour of the buffalo, the only animal in the animal kingdom known to run towards an approaching storm. While other animals retreat, run alongside the storm, seek shelter, try to outrun the storm (which is impossible, since the storm usually moves faster than the animal), the buffalo leans in and runs straight through. Why? Because by doing so, they reduce the amount of time they spend in discomfort and danger. They understand instinctively that the fastest way out of the storm is through it. In leadership, and in life generally, storms are inevitable. They come in the form of uncertainty, tough decisions, uncomfortable conversations, or bold transformations. Yet, what sets successful leaders apart is not the absence of adversity, but how they respond. Many people, when faced with a difficult situation, wish it away. Some delay action, hoping the problem resolves itself. Others retreat, sidestep, or distract themselves. But the most effective leaders, the ones who truly make an impact, choose a different path: they charge the storm. Leadership requires that mindset. The courage to lean into discomfort. The determination to take decisive action when others hesitate. The clarity to see storms not as threats, but as opportunities for growth and transformation. Waiting for the storm to pass only prolongs the discomfort. The longer you avoid a hard decision, the more complicated the situation becomes. Whether it is introducing new technology, kicking a bad habit, changing an outdated culture, or confronting underperformance, leaders must act. As a leader, or an aspiring one, your greatest tool is not just strategy, but bravery. Don’t be afraid to make the decision. You can listen to the episode on this link; youtu.be/cRAN0gX7BIY?si…

@MlLefranc But we have a risk to manage and there is a solution we need to embrace. Our Brothers and Sisters are suffering from the Diaspora - no funds even to return a mere body. Ts ashaming !!! Let's have Insurance address these challenges.

@CSsengendo1 Ssengenedo may be they start with Ugandans in Uganda before they go after Ugandans in Diaspora. Some years ago, that regime said they would collect taxes from all Ugandans in Diaspora...same people who can't collect taxes from Ugandans in Uganda.

Six Ugandans have died in a fire in Kuwait exposing the plight of Migrant Workers who go to the Arab countries. It is very sad. May God console their families and friends. Amen.

@sserugatik30208 @NkunyingiMuwad1 Mr. Sserugatika, Insurance Companies do not exploit Customers. Genuine claims have been honoured over time. Not sure of that statistic of 95%. I would like to offer you full support if there is any Insurance Company that has exploited you.

@CSsengendo1 @NkunyingiMuwad1 Insurances in Uganda seem just to exploit Ugandans and the Insurance regulatory authority just in bed with them. 95% of Ugandans with various Insurance packages have not realised as to why they subscribe to!.

#Kuwait.With sadness,I have learnt of the unfortunate demise of 6 Uganda citizens so far in Kuwait ,5 in ICU all resulting from a fire at their residence plus another one Ugandan who's body was found at the Kuwait hospital. This makes a total of 7 Ugandan so far confirmed dead and 5 in ICU. I call upon Ugandans in the diaspora to unite as we mourn the dead,support their families and assisting in repatriation efforts. I urge the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Uganda & Uganda Embassy to support the repttiation efforts and effectively brief the anxious family members on all developments. If circumstances permit l will personally join the uganda community in Kuwait to fast track all support & emergency avenues. Nkunyingi Muwada -MP SHADOW MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS🇺🇬

@Bagala_alina Insurance is the only Solution. The Uganda Migrant Workers Insurance Scheme - UMWIS

Ugandans 🇺🇬 die and suffer . Embassy and the Government always does nothing 😞 Qatar Kuwait Oman Saudi Bahrain UAE Iraq

@NkunyingiMuwad1 Honourable. Tried engaging you last time. Our Brothers and Sisters need to be enrolled on the recently launched UGANDA MIGRANT WORKERS INSURANCE SCHEME - UMWIS. They are too exposed and no one seems to care - Not Govt, Not Families. Insurance is a MUST have - UGX. 250,000

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@ndagirejjwrite1 @SpireJim

@ndagirejjwrite1 @SpireJim We finally launched the Uganda Migrant Workers Insurance Scheme to support our Migrants

HOW MANY MORE LIVES SHALL WE LOSE TO SUCH INDIGNITY BEFORE WE CARE ABOUT OUR PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST!!! WE KEEP SPEWING ANTI-IMPERIALIST RHETORIC WHILE WE WATCH OUR CHILDREN SUFFERING AND DYING IN MIDDLE EAST SLAVERY! Here is another sad tale of my former student… Whoever can, help please! @LEgulu ———————— “Nabukenya Patricia graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Ethics & Human Rights in 2020 from Makerere University. She traveled to Saudi Arabia and worked there for 2 years. Poor working conditions forced her to leave. In May last year she travelled to Dubai to work as a maid. Immediately, it became clear her new workplace was even worse. She asked the Ugandan agent who had helped her secure this job to get her a different one. The agent replied with veiled threats. ‘She either works or leaves. There are many desperate Ugandans looking for the job she has’. Nabukenya told a close friend that she was extremely overworked. She would start working at 4:00AM and stop at 7:00PM. The only break she would get was when she would be eating. She once complained that her toes and fingers felt like they were paralyzed from too much working and standing. She severally said she wanted to leave the job and return to Uganda. But she could only do this by escaping because apparently the contract she had entered with the company that got her the job required her to pay between UGX 4.5M- 5M if she wanted to leave the job. Despite this, Nabukenya was constantly telling her friends that she wanted to leave. Her phone had been taken away. She could only access it two times a week. Sometimes, a week would elapse. For food she would be given 10 kilogrammes of rice per month. If it got done, she would fend for herself. Her father died last year, and she wasn’t allowed to return to bury him. On Wednesday, 28 May 2025, her family was informed that she was in ICU in a hospital in Dubai. But there are contradictions that have concerned her friends and family. Her sponsor claims that Nabukenya came to her complaining that she couldn’t breath properly. She advised her to take water and go to her room and rest. Apparently, when she tried to drink the water she chocked on it. Shortly after Nabukenya fainted and was admitted in ICU. However, Nabukenya’s sister claims that they had been informed that she fell in the bathroom and blacked out. But an official from the company that contracted Nabukenya has disputed this. He says she just had a heart attack and that it was caused by a blood clot in her brain according to a hospital report. The family has been told that she wont survive. In a strange turn of events the hospital reached out to the family asking for the mother’s consent for her organs to be harvested and sold so the family can raise funds to transport the body.”

@ndagirejjwrite1 @SpireJim We have finally launched the Migrant Workers Insurance Scheme to support our Migrants abroad

@ahereza_nuwe We surely need to make it Mandatory for all Migrant Workers to travel with Insurance just like other countries like Ethiopia, Phillipines, Indonesia etc

The law on companies that take Ugandans outside to do domestic work is simply not effective or even implemented. These stories happen all year throughout. Even with many stake holder engagements, working in the Middle East still remains a death trap 💔

@SpireJim We have always lobbied the Government to have the Uganda Migrant Workers Insurance Scheme (UMWIS) implemented for all Migrant Workers. Surely it shouldn't reach this leve banange. 😭😭😭