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| United Nations deputy secretary
general, Amina Mohammed, once walked a total of 76 km (47 miles) from
Kaduna to Zaria in search of funds to finance her education abroad. |
lawyer has requested
that the grave of Ugandan-born South Africa-based late billionaire, Ivan
Semwanga, be opened up.
The 39-year-old billionaire was buried with a large amount of money said
to be about 100 million Ugandan Shillings by family and friends.
The lawyer, Tugume Gideon, had deposed that Semwanga was buried with
money, a legal tender that no one is allowed to hoard.
Ugandan media reports that Gideon had sued to have the grave opened and
the money removed, claiming that the money is a legal tender and should
not be locked down with anyone.
The lawyer has consequently petitioned the high court to have Ivan
Semwanga’s grave dismantled .
Ivan’s crew, who call themselves the “Rich Gang,” had poured hundreds of
notes into the late billionaire’s grave, along with a generous quantity
of champagnes.
Semwanga was buried Tuesday, May 30, at his home in Kayunga, Uganda.
The former environment minister
revealed that she had to raise money when she wanted to study hotel
catering management in Italy.
“I said to my father: ‘I’m
leaving,’” “He said, ‘OK, but I have no money to give you’. So I
challenged everyone and said I am walking from Kaduna to Zaria — which
is 76km — to raise the cash. They all said ‘You can’t do it!’ But I
raised £4,000, and that was it, I was off.”
Amina Mohammed is the eldest of five
daughters and now a mother of six children. Her father, a herdsman and a
former military officer, met her mother, a nurse, while studying in
Britain. After Mohammad finished her studies in Italy, her father
demanded she return to Nigeria, and to a job — he promised — at the then
American embassy in Kaduna.
According to her, when she arrived
Nigeria, it quickly became apparent there was no job. “So I walked
around and around and, eventually, I was 11 years at an architectural
design office in northern Nigeria. It was tough being a single woman and
going into offices,” she says.
“The men would say, ‘Why is she
here?’ They also often thought I couldn’t speak the native languages, so
I would hear an awful lot of stuff they thought I couldn’t understand, I
can tell you.”
After years in the private sector,
Mohammad served under the president Olusegun Obasanjo, the late
Yar'adua, and former president Goodluck Jonathan before becoming
adviser to Ban Ki-moon, Guterres’ predecessor as secretary general, on
the post-2015 development agenda.
lawyer has requested
that the grave of Ugandan-born South Africa-based late billionaire, Ivan
Semwanga, be opened up.
The 39-year-old billionaire was buried with a large amount of money said
to be about 100 million Ugandan Shillings by family and friends.
The lawyer, Tugume Gideon, had deposed that Semwanga was buried with
money, a legal tender that no one is allowed to hoard.
Ugandan media reports that Gideon had sued to have the grave opened and
the money removed, claiming that the money is a legal tender and should
not be locked down with anyone.
The lawyer has consequently petitioned the high court to have Ivan
Semwanga’s grave dismantled .
Ivan’s crew, who call themselves the “Rich Gang,” had poured hundreds of
notes into the late billionaire’s grave, along with a generous quantity
of champagnes.
Semwanga was buried Tuesday, May 30, at his home in Kayunga, Uganda.
Read more at: https://dailytimes.ng/life-times/billionaire-buried-100-million-lawyer-sues-open-grave-retrieve-buried-money/
lawyer has requested
that the grave of Ugandan-born South Africa-based late billionaire, Ivan
Semwanga, be opened up.
The 39-year-old billionaire was buried with a large amount of money said
to be about 100 million Ugandan Shillings by family and friends.
The lawyer, Tugume Gideon, had deposed that Semwanga was buried with
money, a legal tender that no one is allowed to hoard.
Ugandan media reports that Gideon had sued to have the grave opened and
the money removed, claiming that the money is a legal tender and should
not be locked down with anyone.
The lawyer has consequently petitioned the high court to have Ivan
Semwanga’s grave dismantled .
Ivan’s crew, who call themselves the “Rich Gang,” had poured hundreds of
notes into the late billionaire’s grave, along with a generous quantity
of champagnes.
Semwanga was buried Tuesday, May 30, at his home in Kayunga, Uganda.
Read more at: https://dailytimes.ng/life-times/billionaire-buried-100-million-lawyer-sues-open-grave-retrieve-buried-money/
