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Part I
When I first wrote on this blog that Deox will be the Apprentice Africa champ, a friend who's following the show keenly asked how can I be sure. I told him I was going to analyze the life and times of Deox so far to determine if indeed he has a winning personality.
Deox, according t
o his website, was born in Rukungiri, a small district in south western Uganda, 30 years ago, to humble parents. So humble in fact that at the age of five, he was already slashing people's compounds for money with which to buy scholastic materials.
He finished his primary school with flying colours and joined Kisubi Minor Seminary from where he seriously thought of becoming a priest. Luckily he didn't otherwise we wouldn't be enjoying watching him on The Apprentice Africa.
His was an academic rollercoaster that saw him admitted to St Mary's College Kisubi for his Advanced Level studies. He took to French heartily and shortly after A-Level won a scholarship to study the language at the Universite de Poitiers.
Upon his return, Deox joined Makerere University on government scholarship to study Law. But the spirit of entrepreneurship made him restless and he started supplying pineapples to university canteens and shops in neighbouring Wandegeya. Deox used his profits to open a tour travel firm where he flew students on trips South Africa.
Later, after university, Deox flew to the U.S where he did several stints: data entry specialist, call center specialist and cashier and teller at the successful Stop & Shop super market chain.
He even took to modelling. Had the love of mother Africa not impelled him to return home, Deox would perhaps be big in Hollywood today!
Back home, he joined UTL as a call centre supervisor and was swiftly promoted to Online Customer Care Manager.
But his adventurous hormones drove him to UK where he worked in a butchery, and later as a truck driver and delivery man. With his savings he set up Lincom Staffing, a sales company and some of his clients included One2net.
He also opened a call-box company, opening the way for several others to sprout across the city.
It was time for Deox to return to his noble profession. He set up his o
wn law firm in 2007, partnered with some of the brightest lawyers in what is today known as Tibeingana & Co. Advocates.
Alongside law, he became a property developer, a real estate agent and construction worker. Was hired by UMEME, Uganda's only electricity distributor company to handle the technical aspects of customer care.
As a lawyer, Deox visited prisons to give free advice to prisoners on how to arrange for bail.
He also empowered his people with the knowledge of their rights and constructed three boreholes with his money.
He may be young in lamb but he has verily done it all, and successfully so. He's handsome, inventive, considerate, magnanimous, thorough, vigorous, erudite, ambitious, adorable, resolute, alert, experienced, steadfast, audacious yet modest, versatile, independent and charismatic.
In the final part, I'll examine his stellar performance at the show and why it will win him the crown.
5 comments:
Its amazing to what lengths someone will go when praising the subject of their adoration. The way Blogger writes about Deox and his kyeeyo stints, one would think he was a consultant in the office of the exchequer. He was a butcher in London for chrissake. And a deliveryman and a truck driver. And he left a respectable (?) job at UTL to go do this. Not very inspirational. I'm sure these are sections of his CV he would rather not harp upon much, so yes, much as he maybe a rags to riches story and a paragon of success, lets not kiss up that much. But hey, its your blog, not mine.
Shedi Dills
I think each person lives their life the way they would like. You can do the "respectable" thing and do what society thinks you should. Oh you could explore your abilities and do it all. Bottom line. Enjoy life.Do you honestly think that when Deox grows old he will say I wish... I had done this or that? I dont think so, where as if you stick to societal norms... well we each decide how we live our lives. I think there is nothing wrong with being all you can be.
If he started his own law firm in 1997, that would make him just 19 and when you calculate his timeline from primary to the seminary to SMACK, the Paris for that scholarship and then to MUK then plus everything else..surely he cannot have been 19 when he started his own law firm..something is amiss..
^Your right, he cant have started his own law firm in 1997, so maybe Mr. Blogger could check that out, it might be a mistake or something in the date mentioned
Sorry guys. In my story I mentioned that Deox started his law firm in 1997. That was a MISTAKE. It was actually started in 2007. Apologies to Mr. Deox for any inconviniences the mistake could have caused him and for the readers for being misled.
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