Ugandan-born Lord Vejee became a UK tycoon Born lucky? Yes, I was born lucky. I always attribute my success to luck first before anything else. Luck which starts right from being born in a successful, upright and philanthropic family with successes from earlier generations. That is important because success in more ways comes from stability at home. A lot of people come from traumatised backgrounds, and that affects them a lot in business. So I credit luck because I didn’t have any trauma to deal with, which has given me a clear mind always. The Bromptons Luxury Apartments in Chelsea, London Born in Mengo hospital in 1957, I grew up in Kololo, Kampala, under close and strict nurturing from my parents; Roshan and Jimmy Verjee, both now deceased. At the time, Uganda hadn’t yet attained independence from the British. My father, then a renowned lawyer, was one of few Ugandans lucky to raise a family in the city, a preserve of the British then. He believed strongly in education, social work and philanthropy, always giving unconditionally even before he had a lot of money – and that I believe rubbed off onto me. A UK-trained lawyer with high stature in society, my father and his uncle, BKS Verjee, owned the law firm Verjee and Verjee Advocates. It was a very successful and preferred law firm. It was so popular that BKS Verjee was one of the people who negotiated for Uganda’s independence with the British (which is ironic that later Amin would expel us).
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