Jumia Uganda Country Manager, Ham Namakajjo, resigned from the company this month and will step down next week. This is according to the information I have received from people at the Jumia Uganda office.
According to the people that I have spoken to, he handed in his resignation at the beginning of this month since the company policy necessitates that he serves a month's notice. No official reason for resignation has been specified yet.
Last week, they held him a send-off party and next week is his last week at the company.
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I was also told that no replacement for Ham has been cited so far.
This implies that Jumia's regional manager, East Africa - Sefik Bagdadioglu - is likely to oversee the Ugandan office until they identify the replacement.
Ham joined Jumia mid last year and took over from Jonah Trichao who was acting Country Director after taking over from Justin Christianson who resigned last year.
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Ham Namakajjo taking the media on the tour of the recently launched warehouse in the industrial area[/caption]
In other words, any Country Manager that will be appointed will be the fourth to handle Jumia in a period of fewer than 2 years.
When I contacted Ham to comment about the issue, he declined. Though he confirmed that he was leaving the company.
When I asked him whether he is going back to Fezah, an entertainment services booking startup that he co-founded 5 years ago, he also declined to answer that.
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According to his LinkedIn, Ham is a graduate of Electronics Science and communications from the University of Dar es Salaam.
He also has an MSc in operational communications from Coventry University. On top of that, he has an MBA in finance, strategy, and entrepreneurial management from The Wharton School.
He has previously worked as a Country Director of Google Uganda as well as a consultant with Bain and Company.
On the entrepreneurship side, Ham Namakajjo has started at least two tech ventures. An online food delivery service called Eat In Ug and Fezah, the music streaming app.
Please note that Jumia, in this case, is used to denote either Jumia Market or Jumia Mall. When referring to the entire group, Jumia Group is used.