John Sebuuma

Tax & Legal . Banking & Finance . AML & CFT . Insolvency . Cross-Boarder Investments

[John Sebuuma @johnsebuuma]

Congratulations Benjamin.

[Benjamin Oteng Israel @OtengBenjamin10]

Proud to have won the prestigious Best student for CCP/LAMP Award for the LDC Academic Year 2024/2025.
@kiuvarsity @LivingMuhumuza
@UnionKiu @DebateKiu @KiulawSociety

[Signum Advocates @Signumadvocates]

At the Conference Kirunda also explains the disruption of the legal industry and how company employees are using AI for work today. #LabourLawConf2026

[John Sebuuma @johnsebuuma]

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[Wanyonyi Emmanuel @WanyonyiEmm]

A clarion call from a brilliant young man echoing thousands of students choked by @LDC_Uganda systemic unfairness—to liberate legal training and the profession. Advocates and those wielding power can't afford remaining dismissive. WE SHOULD NEVER PAY TO REPEAT WHAT WE PASSED.

[Ndyatunga Simon @Timelessthemes]

My Nine Year Ordeal at KIU

In 2013, I left Buhweju district with a heavy responsibility on my shoulders. I was the first person in my family to reach university level. Scoring 19 points in UACE felt like I had finally broken a cycle of poverty. When I was admitted to Kampala International University under the district bursary scheme, my family celebrated a miracle. We believed the "bursary" was a hand reaching down to pull us up. Instead, it became a weight that nearly drowned me.

The "scheme" covered tuition, but the functional fees carried a hidden, lethal sting. During orientation, no one warned us that a small delay in payment would trigger penalties so aggressive they felt predatory. By my second year, a small balance had mutated into an 800,000 UGX debt. I went from being a brilliant student dreaming of a First Class degree to a beggar, moving from office to office every semester, pleading for an exam card just to sit for papers I had worked so hard to prepare for. Despite paying every semester's functional fees after learning about late payment charges, by the time I finished in 2016, the debt was so huge that there was no way I could clear it in a single swoop.

The financial pressure did not just empty my pockets; it invaded my mind. It is hard to concentrate on Literature and English when you are calculating how many days of food you must skip to pay a "late fee" that grows while you sleep. By 2016, I had finished every course with no retakes, no missed papers but I was a ghost of the man who had entered. I left the gates broken, emaciated in spirit, and carrying a debt that had ballooned.

I spent the next six years in a self imposed exile in Eastern Uganda, teaching for a meager salary. I lived like a hermit, sending every spare coin back to KIU. I was not working for a future; I was working to buy back a past that the university was holding hostage.

In 2022, I finally cleared the last shilling. The relief, however, was short lived. After buying the graduation gown and seeing my name on the notice board, on Tuesday, I did the one thing I had waited nearly a decade to do: I invited my parents. My father is a primary five dropout from the 1960s. For years, he had looked at me with suspicion, wondering if I had truly been studying or if I had wasted the family’s hopes. I wanted that graduation day to be his vindication.

We traveled from the village, slept in Kampala, and walked onto that campus with our heads high.

Then came the horror. When the official graduation book was opened, my name was nowhere to be found. In that moment, the world stopped. I stood there in a gown I had paid for, at a ceremony I had earned, looking at a father who now had "final proof" that his son was a failure. The humiliation was so absolute that the fact I am still alive today is a miracle of God’s grace.

I spent months fighting, sending emails, and knocking on doors that remained closed until I mentioned legal pressure and opportunities abroad. Only then did a "transcript" magically appear. I chose not to attend the later ceremony when my name finally appeared on the list. The joy had been systematically bled out of the experience.

I share this because a "bursary" for the poor should not result in paying more than the rich. A university should be a fountain of knowledge, not a "school for scandal" that exploits the very students it claims to support.

Those nine years left scars that no certificate can cover. This is for every student still trapped in that cycle fighting for a degree they have already earned.

[NBS Television @nbstv]

VIDEO: We have to get regulations to help us execute the copyright law.- Hon Christine Kaaya

#NBSEagle #NBSUpdates

[PM Digital Law Hub @pmlawhub]

Dear students and teachers of law,

Are you still entangled in analogue? What are you doing to redeem yourselves?

Follow us or visit https://t.co/h76fMSyrxK, you will not remain the same.

Courtesy video from @LTechDialogues

@IsaacSsemakadde @TonyKiire @AdLegalug

[JSC Conversations @JSConversations]

Dr. Oscar Kambona highlights the formation of Kampala Associated Advocates at the JSC Conversations.

[Parliament of Uganda @Parliament_Ug]

A copy of the Magistrates' Court (Amendment) Bill, 2026
https://t.co/GFHVrKkHbz #PlenaryUg

[Nsubuga Mark Nagenda @MarkNsubuga]

I’m going to @elisonk’s upcoming Space. Will you join too?

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[Trump is my cousin 🙋‍♂️💫✍️ @ronaldgabbana]

“We are all ONE bad decision away from needing a trial, the mistake most of us make is assuming it must be your bad decision”

[ᶜᴰᶠᴬ @SirLV]

You can just tell the guy at the front in a suit works for KPMG or PwC 😹😹😹😹😹

[John Sebuuma @johnsebuuma]

@LivingMuhumuza @SM_Co_Advocates @AndrewKibaya @NicholasMwasame @IMutibwa @Innocentkihika Congrats

[John Sebuuma @johnsebuuma]

Check out my latest article: Compliance Requirement for Audited Financial Statements in Income Tax Filings in Uganda. https://t.co/tRnfraD1db via @LinkedIn

[Lawpoint Uganda @Lawpointuganda]

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[John Sebuuma @johnsebuuma]

@KakandeAlex We are watching

[Kakande Alex @KakandeAlex]

Forex Review.

Uganda shillings continues its appreciation against The Dollar and now we are at 3,530 UGX for a dollar.

It has gained over 30 Shs in just 10 days.

[ICPAU @ICPAU1]

We’re excited to host a Twitter Space on ASA Nominations, hosted by Eric Zachary Mugisha, Communications & Marketing Consultant. Together with CPA Alfred Kabuchu, Lydia Tusiime, CPA Rehema Nakirembe & CPA Christine Mugume, we’ll explore how to nominate colleagues & celebrate professional excellence.

Aug 27 | 🕕 6–7:30 PM | @ICPAU1.
Join in & be part of this inspiring conversation!
Set a reminder here: https://t.co/LOCJgjdf4f

#ASAwardsAt10
#CelebratingAccountantsUg
#WeCreateImpact

[John Sebuuma @johnsebuuma]

Hahaha!!!

[TumukundeTonny(TT) @TumukundeTT]

Naye some law firms eeeeh, you find food vendors have piled plates of food at the receptions, sebo onalya ku byeenda ne tooke? Kati what if soup we byenda ayiika mu plaint. Olaba cause of action bweyetabula ne soup.

[Muhumuza Livingston @LivingMuhumuza]

Look at what prayer does!!! Bringing people from different countries to gather in 🇺🇬 Uganda for prayers. Thank you, @Benny_Hinn, for coming to bless us. We are blessed to have you in Uganda. Uganda is indeed blessed as a pearl of Africa..