Junior Dave Kazoora is not a man to stay down when he falls. He belongs to the bold types that stand up, dust themselves up and move on.
The latest on our desk is that his Buddies TV production has landed a mega deal to film an ongoing Airtel promotion in Tanzania.
Over 90 Toyota Ist cars will be given out to Airtel subscribers in the neighbouring country.
Kazoora who handles Airtel promotions in Uganda did a good job and when the TZ office was shopping for someone to handle their promotion, Kazoora’s name surfaced.
And the good thing is that Airtel Tanzania’s Marketing Director Levi Nyakundi, though a Kenyan by origin, worked in Uganda for several years at both Uganda Telecom and Airtel, so Kazoora was already his acquaintance and friend.
It should be remembered that Kazoora was in June last year put behind bars in Kigali over an Airtel deal gone wrong.
However, it was nothing to with shoddy work, but disputes between Kazoora and his Rwandan partner Genza MacDavis.
After a successful first promotion where Airtel Kigali was giving out houses, Kazoora went ahead and did the second promotion in 2013 after registering another company with similar names, excluding Genza because “he was doing nothing yet earning.”
Genza accused Kazoora of Breach of Trust to the authorities who put him behind bars and it took the interference of Uganda’s embassy in Kigali to have him released.
Now that he has been given the job to handle the TZ promotion, it is a big vote of confidence from the global telecom giant.
Kazoora studied a Masters in Documentary Production at the University of Salford in the UK and was a presenter on WBS and KFM before a corporate stint in Pepsi that he left in 2012 to concentrate on private business.
His Buddies Bar closed in 2013, but his Buddies TV Production is going places.