Uganda, June 9 -- He had heard from around the town that there was an elderly but vibrant woman selling a piece of her land in Nkozi, close to Uganda Martyrs University.
At the time, Nkozi did not have the status and population it does now. In 2003, a young Vincent Agaba acquired the land.
"A quarter of an acre at Shs3m," he says. Agaba was neither employed nor earning from any other source. It was from his pocket money that he saved money to acquire the sizeable land.
"When I was at Uganda Martyrs University Nkozi they would give me pocket money of around Shs500,000. I went down to the village and found this old lady selling a piece of land. It took me about one year to clear the entire bill," he narrates.
But for Agaba, that was only ...