CONFIRMED: Hotel Africana Owner BMK Dead

City tycoon Hajji Bulaimu Muwanga Kibirige, popularly known as BMK, has been confirmed dead after being hospitalized for weeks.

Bulaimu Kibirige aka BMK was the proprietor of Hotel Africana.

Kampala lord mayor Erias Lukwago said: “A great entrepreneur, philanthropist and industrious person. Sleep well mukadde waffe Ibrahim Kibirige Muwanga (BMK). May the Almighty Allah grant him Jaanah Firdaus.Inna Lillahi wa inna illaihi Raji’oon.”

Fellow businessman and former minister Mike Mukula eulogized BMK.

”We have lost one of the most enterprising people in Uganda, very humble, jovial, generous, very religious, extremely very understanding, a patriot and a nationalist,” said Mukula.

FDC deputy secretary general Harold Kaija wrote: “GOD TAKES THE BEST. If God would consult who to take, possible we wouldn’t send BMK. This is bad news for our liberation Economics.”