Ochen Dembe was taken from his home on Bugala Island at age 7 for the pirate life. Kidnapped as a child he was forced to work as a deckhand and extra gun on Somalian pirate ships. By age 9 he found himself fighting his own nationality on a boat in Lake Victoria. During this time Ugandan Nationalist groups sunk the somalian pirates and Ochen found himself within the ranks as a war child. Fighting in jungles for the next 10 years Ochen would contemplate what his life had become and decided to go awol. Taking his leave from Uganda Ochen would hop on a boat and flee to Norway. Meeting a group called K.A.M.N. sharing ideals and seeing a possible refuge from the life he ran away from Ochen would Join them and be nicknamed Boogs based off his birthplace of Bugala Island.