KAMPALA, Uganda -                       A 75-year-old Ugandan man Gerald Kijjambu was on Friday, among the 503 students who graduated from Katonga Technical Institute at Nindye Village in Nkozi Sub County, Mpigi District of Uganda.

CEOAfrica gathered from the country’s -own newspaper, Daily Monitor, that when the government started institution in 2011, it was an opportunity for the then 66-year-old Kijjambu to acquire skills that would help him upgrade the quality of his tailoring work.

Three years later, he enrolled for a tailoring course at the institute.

The zealous granny and others were awarded certificate in both technical and vocational training including tailoring, plumbing, bricklaying, mechanics and other courses.

Other elderly graduands included; one Victoria Ntabanzi Lubwama, 61, and Francis Ndugga, 52.

“I could not let this chance go without utilizing it despite my age,” Mr Kijjambu clad in a graduation gown told Daily Monitor.

From a village tailor, Kijjambu has since become a professional who receives orders (tenders) to make uniforms for various schools within the surrounding Sub Counties of Nkozi, Kammengo and Buwama.

“With the professional skills I acquired, I got more orders from various institutions, which gave me a busier schedule, but I employed some young people that would help me deliver the work in time,” he explained.

Hajjat Safina Musenne, the state Commissioner for Business Technical Vocational Education Training (BTVET) at the Ministry of Education officiated at the ceremony on behalf of State Minister for Higher Education, Mr John Chrysostom Muyingo.