We reveal to you a summery of the life of City tycoon Segawa Haruna Sentongo
Born to a peasant farmer in Kalungu called Hajj Ssegawa.
Haji Ssegawa used to sell fish on a bicycle, started a small retail shop in Kalungu and later in Masaka town. After struggling a lot his elder sister (passed on) connected him to investors in Dubai who would give him merchandise on credit and successfully sold them to get his own capital and established himself in Kampala. He built his first building in Kikubo, started Ssuubi FM, Hannah mixed, sells women handbags on mukwano, owns cash beauty products, among other businesses.
Haji Segawa gave very capital to Haruna in early 2000 to do business while studying and Haruna started importing ladies bags from china. He could later sell them at a relatively high profit margin both on wholesale and retail.
In 2005 he expanded and owned a very big furniture shop on bed Kiwanuka Road. He could import furniture from China and distribute to homes, Offices and hotels in Uganda, South Sudan, Congo and Rwanda.
In 2007 Haruna diversified and Started Importing garments from China, Thailand, Malaysia and Distributes them to Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan Congo & within Uganda both at Wholesale and retail basing from Mukwano Arcade. He could also supply to a n umber of retailers within the city Centre. Given his large volume of sales from his garments and Furniture shops, he generated some reasonable savings that enabled him to purchase and prime Plot of Land along bombo Road in Wandegeya and also start the first phase of construction.
In 2011, he established Haruna Enterprises, a limited liability company through which he obtained loan facilities to complete his first property and also setup other shopping malls as well as starting the first phase of the construction of his fist renown Shopping Mall (Haruna Towers).
Haruna later on obtained a loan facility from Diamond Trust bank to complete his building and continued the with the process until now and among his buildings include: Haruna Towers Wandegeya, Haruna Shopping Mall Ntinda, Haruna Towers Kisenyi ,Nakayiza Market also in Kisenyi
By Nalwanga Agness
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