First Daughter Patience: ‘Bank nearly took my home over mortgage’

• She and her husband fell behind on mortgage payments due to struggles with their business, resulting in warning letters from the bank
• They managed to find the money needed to pay off the interest and bring their account current, ultimately paying off the entire house in seven years
• Mrs. Rwabwogo preached about trusting God and having no fear to follow his guidance during a recent church service

The 46-year-old recounted during a recent church service how she and her husband Odreck Rwabwogo nearly lost their home in Buziga to a bank.

The couple bought the home about 18 years ago, she said; cleared the down payment and started paying off the mortgage.

“We were paying the loan with income from our business. At some point, we had struggles with our business and we got behind in the mortgage and the interest started piling,” she narrated.

Eventually, the First Daughter says, they got a letter from the bank warning them that if they did not pay up the interest and bring their account to current in seven days, the house was to be advertised.

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But by God's grace, she says, they were able to find the money they needed, paid the interest and brought their account to current.

In the next seven years, they were able to pay off the entire house.

Mrs Rwabwogo was preaching to her congregants the power of trusting God and having no fear to follow his guidance.

On top of her pastoral work, Mrs Rwabwogo is an established businesswoman according to her father Gen Museveni.

The 46-year-old has multiple ventures mostly in agriculture.

Right from the finished university education in Minnesota, USA, Museveni says Patience had a knack for entrepreneurship, starting a grain milling business before she ventured into cattle farming