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Geoffrey Donnels Oketayot

Left to right: A photo collage of Hassanein Hiridjee, Geoffrey Donnels Oketayot, and Ronald Onzia. Hiridjee, together with Towerco of Africa Uganda, had sought to stay proceedings or refer a multimillion-dollar shareholder dispute to a UK court. However, court rejected the pleadings that Oketayot, Onzia, and another shareholder, George Arthur Ssamula, had strongly opposed.
Left to right: A photo collage of Hassanein Hiridjee, Geoffrey Donnels Oketayot, and Ronald Onzia. Hiridjee, together with Towerco of Africa Uganda, had sought to stay proceedings or refer a multimillion-dollar shareholder dispute to a UK court. However, court rejected the pleadings that Oketayot, Onzia, and another shareholder, George Arthur Ssamula, had strongly opposed.

Ugandan Court Rejects Towerco Bid to Shift Dispute to UK, Citing Fraud Allegations and Public Policy

In a ruling that reinforces Ugandan courts’ discretion to retain jurisdiction over disputes relating to alleged illegality, Justice Patience Rubagumya of the Commercial Division of the High Court declined to stay proceedings
October 24, 2025
Uganda telecom tower ownership dispute: Ubuntu Towers founders Geoffrey Donnels Oketayot, Ronald Onzia, and George Arthur Ssamula in legal battle with TowerCo of Africa Ltd (Mauritius) led by billionaire Hassanein Hiridjee, over alleged fraudulent share acquisition, corporate oppression, and takeover of Ubuntu Towers (later renamed TowerCo of Africa Uganda). Case involves MTN Uganda, Airtel contracts, and ongoing High Court proceedings in Kampala.”
From left to right: Hassanein Hiridjee, Geoffrey Donnels Oketayot, George Arthur Ssamula, and Ronald Onzia — the key figures in the high-stakes battle over Ubuntu Towers (later renamed TowerCo of Africa). The Ugandan founders accuse Hiridjee and his Mauritius-based TowerCo of orchestrating a fraudulent takeover of their company, sparking one of the most consequential shareholder disputes in Uganda’s telecom sector.

Ugandan Founders Lock Horns with TowerCo of Africa and Hassanein Hiridjee, its billionaire founder, in High-Stakes Telecom Battle

In 2019, three Ugandan entrepreneurs — Geoffrey Donnels Oketayot, Ronald Onzia, and George Arthur Ssamula — set out to disrupt the telecom tower industry by founding Ubuntu Towers Uganda Ltd. Within months,
September 25, 2025
Left-Right: Dorothy Kabagambe - Ssemanda, the ATC Uganda Chief Executive Officer; Silvernus Okoth, the Ag. Country Manager, Smile Communications and Uganda Communications Commission’s (UCC) Executive Director, Eng. Irene Kaggwa Sewankambo.

We can’t breathe- small telcos and ISPs squirm and writhe over ATC Uganda’s towering market dominance 

When Smile Communications, launched in Uganda in the fourth quarter of 2009, it was so buoyant about its prospects. The out-of-Mauritius telco pioneered 4G LTE services in Uganda and East Africa, as
July 2, 2023
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