By Our Reporter
While the October 2019 Makerere University strike over the 15% tuition fees increment registered negative outcomes for both students and management, it presented an opportunity for Alex Mugasha. The young then-student recorded a video that went viral and changed his life.
Next Media Services recently posted a poster congratulating “Gasha,” as he is commonly known in his circles, upon becoming their new South-Western Bureau Reporter. The post read;
“OFFICIAL: Alex Mugasha is our new South-Western Uganda Bureau Reporter. Congratulations to Mugasha, who, shortly after his “Bushera” viral video done in imitation of @SamsonKasumba, we took on in our Apprenticeship Program at which he excelled. Congratulations.”
Alex Mugasha was first known as ‘the bushera guy’ and has since seen his journey take amazing ascendance – he has grown from being a trainee at Next Media Services to a permanent employee with the Naguru-based station, and now a professional charged with Uganda’s biggest current affairs TV station’s presence in a whole region!
He took to Twitter to thank NBS Television as a platform, and the Next Media Services Group CEO, Kin Kariisa, for his opportunity. He wrote;
“New role means great opportunities, New strategies and thats for a fact. Thanks @nbstv @nextmediaug @KKariisa for entrusting me with this huge assignment. Let us tell those stories. Thanks everyone for your messages, much overwhelmed. #MugashaReports”
Mugasha joined Next Media Services in 2019 and has been in our faces since. Listening to him clearly shows that he loves his job and has mastered a couple of skills that have helped him become the reporter he is today.
This is yet another great example of Uganda building Uganda that ought to be appreciated – a Ugandan-owned Next Media Services, run by Ugandans, picking and taking chances on young Ugandan talent from across the nation driven by passion.
Mugasha follows in the footsteps of other personalities at NBS Television, such as news anchor and reporter Josephine Namakumbi and news reporter and co-producer Paul Kayonga.
