Live Wire

Kilimani: The capital of murders, drugs, gun runners and scammers

Never mind President Uhuru Kenyatta lives in State House which is in Kilimani By Pascal Owade Contributing editor/crime @UndercoverKe Drug dealers, gun runners, money launderers and gold scammers all find a home in Nairobi’s Kilimani-the place of wild parties and more often, murders. Not a  month passes before police are called in on something that […]

This week in History

Who changes Jomo Kenyatta’s underwear at the Mausoleum?

Founding President has to look good when his family checks on him inside Parliament grounds By Mbatia wa Njambi Visiting Thinker @UndercoverKe Someone changes the suit worn by founding President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta in readiness for his annual memorials marked this week. Iron his shirt, adjust tie, tighten belt, shampoo the fly-whisk, comb his hair, […]

Weekend Mail

Deep State: It can make you read your own obituary…sprint from your shadow!

Its agenda is not to help the masses; build schools, dig boreholes, prevent teenage pregnancies, discover vaccines  By GW Ngari Editor-at-Large @UndercoverKe Billionaire wheeler-dealer Jimi Wanjigi woke up to his own obituary in the Daily Nation in February, 2018. He was awarded Sh8 million for damages (of being killed prematurely), but ‘the system’ which works […]

Off-the-Pitch

Daniel Adongo: Troubled star earned Sh70 million at 25… now begging mum at 30!

Washed out and depressed, this celebrity is juggling drugs, the occult and other dark forces By Idris ‘Shoes’ Lule Contributing editor/sports @UndercoverKe He looks rugged, like a delusional street boy. But Daniel Adongo, now seemingly high on something stronger than a cigarette, earned Sh75 million by the time he was 25 years playing in the […]

Screw Driver

Johnson Sakaja: Why landlord MaDvD…has been chasing him around!

Nairobi Senator downgraded from Karen to Lavington ‘so that I can have lunch at home’ By Shifa Mwihaki Feature writer/Essayist @UndercoverKe Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja-the former guitarist for a gospel band- not only recently pleaded guilty to drinking after curfew hours, but has also been running away from his landlord-fellow politician Musalia Mudavadi or ‘MaDvD’. […]

Politics

Mlevi wa Taifa: How Kenyan Presidents… staggered at State House!

Is there anything wrong when the Head of State ‘thanks his body’ with excessive drinking? By Mbatia wa Njambi Visiting Thinker Uhuru Konyagi. Jameson Wanjohi. Lawson Wamashati. Kinyua. Drunken Master. Commander-in-Drinks. These are the counter of nicknames Kenyans had tagged former President Uhuru Kenyatta on social media. They are all related to his drinking habits […]