By BigEyeUg Team
Senior six leaver, Ivan Ssemwanga, is a man who has made his name in a very short time. He used to live in Kayunga back in the 90’s before he came to Kampala for O and A level studies.
In Kampala, he went to Central Academy where he became a head prefect and started building his profile. At around the same time, Ivan met a young lady called Jane with whom he fell in love with. The same lady was in love with another man called Muwonge who would later become Ivan’s salvation.
Muwonge, according to our source, had made a lot of money in South Africa from pretending to be a traditional healer who could solve people’s problems. When Ivan found out, he begged him to take him to South Africa so that he can start a new life.
Muwonge’s only condition for Ivan was that he had to get his way around internal affairs and clear his documents. This he did and unfortunately got robbed as he almost got into South Africa. He picked himself up at this point and pushed on.
We are told that when Ivan got in South Africa, he joined Muwonge in his business of healing and selling herbs only to realize that he could do better than him. He opened up his own shrine with the help of another Ugandan traditional healer called Kaganda.
He then gained some popularity before getting a mammoth of customers who came for all sorts of solutions to their social, economic and political problems.
His biggest break was when one of the top politicians brought him an epileptic relative to heal. Ivan immediately contacted his Ugandan buddies who got him medicine that healed the epilepsy.
From this trade, our source tells us that Ivan’s shrine became popular by the day making him more money than he could have ever imagined.
He has now been branded a ‘Kampala Holiday Pretender’ aka showoff who has a rural approach to a rich lifestyle following his recent episodes of splashing money in clubs and bars.
We will keep you posted.
