Pursued by 3 banks over UGX 72 bn in debt, how a desperate Hamis Kiggundu turned to courts to buy more time, but in the process cut the hands that fed him

The Hamis Kiggundu vs. Diamond Trust Bank (DTB) case took almost everyone by surprise. Everybody who knows the maverick businessman, the proprietor of Ham Enterprises and Kiggs International, knows that he and DTB have had a long cordial and reciprocal working relationship. It is a public secret that DTB has been at the centre of the businessman’s growth. In fact the bank was also a tenant at most of the businessman’s buildings as well. So mutual, that even when the businessman in October 2017, needed a USD10 million facility, and DTB Uganda could only lend him a maximum of USD5.5…