During my middle-school holidays in 2005, my parents gave me some reasonable capital to start a business. The capital was reasonable in the sense that it was not too much for me to simply spend it on my personal needs then as a young man, nor was it too small for me not to start.
This gave me the opportunity to test the entrepreneurial waters. I started small, buying garments, furniture, ladies’ bags and other commodities from large importing wholesalers and selling them locally at a profit.
I chose those specific items because it was those very commodities that my parents were dealing in then.
As my margins grew, I began to source directly from international markets and became a firsthand importer myself. I imported clothes and commodities from China, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Dubai, and distributed them wholesale both in Uganda and in neighboring countries, like Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Congo and Sudan.

When my trading business thrived and I accumulated more capital, I opted to venture into a more sophisticated business and real estate was a natural fit for me. I started buying and selling land and properties at a profit and in 2009, I incorporated Ham Enterprises (U) Ltd and progressed to constructing and owning my commercial properties.

In 2010, i started building Ham towers, my first commercial building at the Makerere suburb of Kampala city. Having mastered the commercial real estate principles, i referred to lessons learnt from my first project and I was then able to move a bit faster. Within 18 months, i had built my second property — Ham Shopping Mall. With combined rental income coming from both properties, i easily secured more financing from banks, for other projects given my reasonable collateral.

I have now diversified into national large-scale industrialization since 2018, mainly focusing on Agro-processing and value addition. Because Uganda is an Agro-based country but majorly, exporting raw material at unreasonable rates yet Importing processed products at exorbitant costs. Productive population also leave spacious fertile villages and congest urban areas for unreasonable survival. My desire to realize import substitution, mitigate rural-urban migration and effect regional national development forced me to invest over 2 Billion Shillings in global and national research.
I resultantly divided Uganda into 10 Agro-Zones basing of the specific agro produce from each zone (region) and resolved that each zone need an advanced Integrated Agro-Processing Industrial Plant (IAIP) as agro-processing and value additional are the only direct and clear path for Uganda from Poverty to prosperity. Each Plant cost between US$156-200 Million that is too much in comparison to the size of our economy. I therefore resolved and embarked on starting a pilot project in the Akright City of the central region as a kick-starter with hope that other fellow able ones would emulate and do the same in other zones and together we will transform our motherland from poverty to prosperity.