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What corruption can do for a poor country like Uganda. Here are some of properties owned by the first family in Uganda.

1.Charm Towers, the former headquarters of Uganda Commercial Bank in Kampala.

2.Garden City Complex, Kampala. That is why it was built on a wetland but nobody could say anything to stop it.

3.Roofings Limited. This is the property of Janet Museveni. We are yet to find out if she owns it alone or as a partnership with her children.

4.Uganda Telecom. This one is owned by Janet Museveni but we have information that she got it in conjunction with her relative and the then Finance Minister Sam Kuteesa.

5.MTN Uganda. The First Family owns a 47.5 percent stake in MTN Uganda which is Uganda’s largest mobile phone service provider.

6.Kabira Club we are also told is owned by the First Family using Sudhir Ruparelia as a front. It follows therefore that Kabira International School is also owned by the First Family.


7.Orient Bank. It is controlled exclusively by Sam Kuteesa and he made sure that all the payments to the Uganda Revenue Authority whether they are normal taxes, general receipts for driving permits, passports, trading licenses, new car registration and so on are paid through Orient Bank. You can imagine how much he gets from the URA account.

8.Kampala International University Kampala and the proposed Mbarara branch are also owned by the Museveni conglomerate using businessman Hassan Basajjabalaba as a front.


9.Lake View Hotel Mbarara is also for the First Family. It was bought from Wavamuno some years back.

10.St. Lawrence Citizens High School is owned by the First Family. In fact you could remember a story in the newspapers recently when Museveni and Janet were the guests of honour at Parents Day at the school but when they have no children in the school.


11.Imperial Resort Beach Hotel. It has a bullet-proof presidential suite and sometimes Museveni goes there to rest from his state duties or to meet his other women behind Janets back.



12.Nakasero Market. That one is now in the hands Janet Museveni and Basajjabalaba was brought in as a frint with Kampala Mayor Nasser Sebaggala as a "facilitator."

13.Speke Resort Munyonyo is another property owned by Janet Museveni with her children that is why you see that when heads of state have been coming to Uganda they have been booked there.


14.The Simu 4 U phone call boxes in Kampala are owned by Janet Museveni. These boxes were targetted by protestors during the arrest of Besigye in 2005 becasue they knew the owners.

15.We suspect that Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel Entebbe of Karim Hirji and Crested Towers in Kampala are also owned by Museveni these days. But we cannot yet confirm it.

16.The greedy man and his family have now been entering joint businesses with the Libyans to co-own Uganda Telecom, Crested Towers, and the National Housing flats in Kampala.




17.Reports of Museveni family hotel in London.
We are getting reports that the Museveni clan owns an hotel in Knights Bridge in SW1, London, the United Kingdom. If anybody has information on this, please send it in.



18.Museveni owner of BIDCO factory in Jinja
BIDCO company which manufactures cooking oil in Jinja is also has the First Family's hands all over it. The factory is located in Masese. Why do you think Museveni pushed for Bidco to get the huge land on Kalangala island the same way he is pushing for Mabira to go to Mehta?

If you know other properties owned by the Museveni family as usual feel free to give us a shout and tell us so that we shout it to the Ugandans.