If you are familiar with most digital platforms, Edwin Karugire’s video clip narrating his first meeting with his father law (President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni) is something that never grows old.
Clipped from the speech made during Museveni’s golden jubilee celebrations, Karugire reveals how he sweated and massively got marinated the moment president grilled him regarding his interests in first daughter Natasha Museveni Karugire.
“I never found any big problem until the day I was required to meet the father of the girl I was to marry. And as you all know, it can be a daunting task because I was the first intruder into his home. But I wasn’t afraid. Because after all, he was my father too and he was the father of our generation.” Karugire narrates disclosing that the appointed day happened at Nakasero State House where he found the president in the living room with Natasha and Mama Janet Museveni.
The learned friend said revealed that Mama Janet’s presence was a very good sign for him and Safety basing on the numbers.
Karugire added that the strange things started to happen the moment Natasha and mama left the room.
“I was very confident but when Natasha and mama left the room, I was left alone with our father (President Museveni) who was watching World War II documentary in silence. But luckily I had practiced by presentation. I had my script memorized. So I started talking. But he signaled and told me to first be quiet as he watched the documentary on television. That was when I started sweating. So after the longest 30 minutes of my life, during which the bullets were the document or the bullets bombs, I felt like it was me being attacked and marinated sufficiently.” He said.
“He asked me, do you drink alcohol? So by this time, I was incoherent dehydrated. So I gave him all the possible answers at once. Just said something like I don’t. I used to but I’m stopping, then he told me how drinking alcohol makes someone unconscious and he’s never been unconscious.”
He said in this way he is strong adding that he’s even stronger than me. And then he graciously invited me to fight him if I doubt him what but I politely declined.
Who is Karugire?
Edwin Karugire is a Ugandan lawyer and academic. He is known for his expertise in commercial law, constitutional law, and human rights law. Karugire has also served as a lecturer at Makerere University in Uganda.
He has a Master of Laws in Commercial and Corporate Law which he acquired from the University of London (Queen Mary and University College London), also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from Law Development Centre, He got his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) (Honours) Degree from Makerere University Kampala.
He began his career as a lawyer 20 years ago and through K&K Advocates he has acquired a lot and he has spareheaded many mega deals in Uganda and East Africa as a legal counsel.
He specializes in international and domestic corporate and commercial practice. He has acted for clients in all aspects of corporate law, including but not limited to Mergers and Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, Banking and Finance, Technology, Media & Telecommunication, Private Equity, Energy, Taxation, PPPs and Insolvency.
Karugire has successfully structured, negotiated and executed some of the most complex commercial transactions in the industry. He has led the K&K transactions team in some of the biggest telecommunication acquisitions in Uganda and has also handled several notable cross-border Joint Venture transactions in the Technology, FMCG, Pharmaceuticals, Media, Security Printing, Agriculture and Manufacturing sectors.
Karugire possesses an in-depth knowledge of the TMT sector and has been retained as lead counsel by some of the biggest telecom operators as well as the industry regulator in Uganda. Karugire also draws on his knowledge and experience of the domestic and regional business markets to offer regional and international investors clear advice for setting up and sustaining business in Uganda.
Karugire also heads the newly constituted Makerere University Appointments Board.
He is also a family man and on 2nd September, 2000, he married the First Daughter Natasha Museveni Karugire and they have three children.
In 2016, under their K&K Advocates, Karugire together with Kiryowa Kiwanuka successfully defended President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in a presidential election petition before the Supreme Court against John Patrick Amama Mbabazi.
