How Man Who Worked as Security Guard in UK Built 200 Multi-Million Homes in Uganda

They say if you have been to one African country then you have been to all of them. This also applies to the dynamics of people living abroad but also want to invest in their motherland.

Crafty relatives swindle Ugandans

Just as with Kenyans, Ugandans in the diaspora have also been suffering at the hands of their crafty and greedy relatives when it comes to investing back at home, but a young man called Hajji Yassin Bakaluba is changing things for them.

“I came back to Uganda and realised that there was a problem with construction. Many Ugandans working in the diaspora wanted to construct but were afraid that people will eat their money,” he said.

“I have constructed over 200 structures for people I have never met; I have just met them on social media,” said Hajj on Wode Maya YouTube channel.

Hajj has been in Uganda for two years and so far, he has built a mall and 10 other apartments. Before leaving London he had built 35 apartments.

The towering man left Uganda when he was 19 years and stayed there for another 19 years.

Hajj never connected with the UK

“My life when there was 50-50 but my heart was in Uganda, I never connected with the UK. When I was up there I was a security guard and I had a lot of time to read a lot of inspirational stories I saw people who came from rags to riches and the whole time I was enriching my mind with good ideas,” said Hajj.

“Many people live without a purpose you need a goal. The difference between the person who is going to make it and who is not going to make it is consistency” said the real estate mogul.

Hajj said people also fail to analyse trends, he said he had seen many people get good jobs, get loans which capture them and they end up taking their lives.

For some people abroad, among them Hajj, sometimes the money they get is not enough to do anything because the tax is very high and the cost of living is astronomical as well.

The real estate enthusiast said he knew his expenses and worked with the balance.

When the time for Hajj to leave the UK and go back to Uganda came, he encountered a lot of opposition.

Jealous friends and relative tried warning Hajj

“Someone who can’t see it for themselves can’t see it for you, the people who don’t believe in you are mainly you family and friends who saw you begging, going to well and being a small child,” he said.

“I bought my first property at KSh 200, 000 and after 10 years, I sold it for like KSh 2.9 million after two years,” said Hajj.

Hajj said that if point A is developing, just know points B and C will develop very soon and one should rush to grab them.

Hajj’s first building was built with materials bought from join despite opposition from friends who wondered how he would manage to bring them back.

” I brought my materials such as tiles and lights in a 20- feet container and started building,” he said.

Shortly afterwards family wrangles over land got him in jail and as he told his side to the media, people from the diaspora started requesting he builds their houses and that is how his business took off. He has built hundreds of houses for people over two years.

Woman beaten by mum and brother

In December 2022, Paulina Gathoni, aka Pookie narrated how she was chased away from home after her brother and her mum ate her money.

Pookie was forced to run away from her marriage after her husband started beating her and sleeping with the househelp.

She told TUKO.co.ke that she ended up on the streets and then left for Saudi Arabia where she worked for years but upon return, there was nothing to show for it but a house.