From managing a CMI safe house to real estate tycoon - #Uganda

 

Dr. Anatoli Kamugisha is the proprietor and CEO of Akright Projects Empire Ltd (APEL) - a leading real estate business empire in Uganda. The estimated value is US $ 15M worth of investment which has properties in Kirinya, Bweyogerere and the magnificent satellite city at Kakungulu Estates along Entebbe Road that sits on a 2 sq. kms piece of land.   The 54 years old CEO, Kamugisha’s echo hails from Ibanda in Ankole sub region and claims to have earlier owned the little known, KANOBLIC GROUP, a real estate and construction company that he closed in 1999 for undisclosed reasons.

He further claims to have founded APEL in the same year for real estate development business. He claims to have started from scratch with no financial capital but only had a business idea. He further claims that his good business idea attracted some small financial support from undisclosed financial institutions and friends. Museveni blessed the launch of the mega Akright business empire.

Kamugisha and his company were embroiled in the infamous multi-billion Temangalo NSSF land scandal that involved former Prime Minister, Amama Mbabazi and tycoon Amos Nizey'imana. Kamugisha is currently facing a number of land fraud related cases some of which have even landed him in the Luzira maximum prison last year.

Ugandans always suspected that Dr. Anatoli Kamugisha is just a front of some big shot in the Museveni regime. At the time, he claims to have founded APEL in the late 1990s, Anatoli Kamugisha who has never been a soldier was manning the chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) "Safe House" in the city centre.

The said Safe House was located along Siad Barre Avenue opposite La Bella Restaurant on Dewinton in a building housing the Uganda Land Commission. The two spacious rooms on the ground floor could be accessed from both Siad Barre Street and Parliamentary Avenue through the Prison Services parking lot.

The entrance from Siad Barre Avenue was always closed leaving the Prisons Service parking lot as the main access point. As the head of the squad, Anatoli Kamugisha worked with other staff members of CMI among them, a one Herbert Kijara (pictured) who is currently stationed at the Parliamentary Building.

Though the safe house was also a contact point for the Congolese Banyamulenge fighters, CMI used it as a torture chamber.  Later, the same facility was rebranded as a Civil-Military Relations office headed by CMI's Chris Bagamba.

That is the background of the now leading local investor and miraculous real estate tycoon, Dr. Anatoli Kamugisha.

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