Christopher Sembuya

Christopher Columbus Sembuya, was a Ugandan industrialist and entrepreneur and one of the founders of the Sembule Group of Companies, one of Uganda’s indigenous companies which first locally produced radio and television sets, “landline” telephones and even streetlight.

Quotes

• “Why should we let foreigners take our thing?”
• They must start to think with their hearts and measure return on investment in emotional kilobytes, Article by by Joseph Were, 13 April 2014

• “True, the circumstances and the period of Idi Amin were characterised by terror, but that does not have to put away his other side that was a sincere positive contribution to Uganda…”
  • The untold Jekyll and Hyde story of Idi Amin, Article 31 January 2010 The East African
    • Christopher Colombus Sembuya praises him for his “positive contributions” to Uganda in the fields of business, infrastructure, religion and sports, among others.

• “Often Amin has been accused of so many wrongs, that any of his right doings always obscured,”
  • The untold Jekyll and Hyde story of Idi Amin, Article 31 January 2010 The East African
    • Sembuya credits Amin for the creation of Uganda’s first and only national flag carrier, the Uganda Airlines Corporation and expanding the Uganda Railways following the collapse of the East African Community in 1977.
• “…The military then began to assume a more prominent role in Uganda’s life. Obote selected the popular officer, Idi Amin Dada, and promoted him rapidly through the ranks as a personal protege,”
  • The untold Jekyll and Hyde story of Idi Amin, Article 31 January 2010 The East African