Billionaire businessman Hajj Dr Bulaimu Muwanga Kibirige, popularly known as BMK, one of Uganda’s richest indigenous investors is dead.
He is reported to have died from Nairobi, Kenya. He was 68 years old.
At the time of his death, BMK was chairman and managing director of the BMK Group of companies, whose chain of businesses include: Hotel Africana Kampala, Kampala, Uganda, Hotel Africana Moroto, Uganda, Hotel Africana Lusaka, Zambia, BMK Motorcycles (U) Limited, Kampala, Uganda, BMK Motorcycles (K) Limited, Nairobi, Kenya, BMK Motorcycles (T) Limited, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, BMK Motorcycles (R) Limited, Kigali, Rwanda, BMK Motorcycles (Z) Limited, Lusaka, Zambia, Hotel Africana Forex Bureau 1, 2-4 Wampewo Avenue, Kampala, Uganda, Hotel Africana Forex Bureau 2, 16-18 William Street, Kampala, Uganda, BMK Construction Leasing Company, Kigali, Rwanda and BMK Oil Equipment Company, Kampala, Uganda among others.
BMK has also served as Chairman of the Uganda Hotel Owners Association and was a former board member of the Ugandan North American Association (UNAA) and at the time of his death was serving as the Chairman Executive Board of Uganda-Sickle Cell Rescue Foundation.
In 2014, he was awarded a doctorate of Philosophy in Humanities at the United Graduate College and Seminary and received a Diaspora Lifetime Award for entrepreneurship in the East and Central Africa region the same year.
He is survived by two wives; Sophia and Hawa Muwanga and 18 children.
