Kenyans love mahindi choma with pili pili, but that mucakwe they throw away have other uses beyond feeding cows, lighting fires By Shifa Mwihaki Feature writer/Essayist Kenyans love roast maize. Kwanza when hot off the wire mesh. It goes very well with that red pili pili which turns the mouth into a peppery sauna. When […]
The three children would trouser home Sh400 million each if wealth was shared equally By GW Ngari Editor-at-Large @UndercoverKe A billionaire’s ‘other children’ are lunging for a piece of the Sh4 billion inheritance including rental income from Nginyo Towers on Koinange street, Nairobi. Nginyo Kariuki, father of six, died at 82 this February 24. Seven […]
His victims sue him, but shortly active death threats see them gassing towards the airport, fleeing By Pascal Owade Contributing Editor/crime Chris Obure is Nairobi’s resident gold scammer. Just four years ago, he conned a Venezuelan lawyer Sh200 million in a botched gold deal. Deals worth less than Sh100 million are for his juniors. Like Kevin […]
There is a misconception I am moneyed. The Truth is I don’t have the money. I know it’s hard to believe By Idris ‘Shoes’ Lule Contributing writer/Sports Gordon Ogada, holed up in Nairobi’s Kibra slums where flying toilets are the order of the night. That was before he hit the Mother Lode, winning Sh230 million […]
Udi Gecaga is now dating Dr Sally Kosgey after separating from Jeni Kenyatta By GW Ngari Editor-at-Large It is a bitter multimillion shilling inheritance and property dispute pitting President Uhuru Kenyatta’s brother in-law, Udi Gecaga and his step-mother. The case which is slotted for the courts this June has been opening up the intricacies of […]
His annual pay equals earning more than Sh42, 000 every hour for 365 days minus dividends By GW Ngari Editor-at-Large By the time you spill an hour taking a shower, brushing your teeth and trying unsuccessfully to shake off a hangover, Gideon Muriuki will have made over Sh 40, 000. That comes to more than […]
Majority of those who scale the financial uplands do it in the easiest ways known: Solving human problems and charging for it By GW Ngari Editor-at-large Not one Kenyan made it to this year’s list of Africa’s dollar billionaires, basically those whose worth kisses the Sh100 billion ceiling. The Kenyattas and the Ndegwas play in […]
The former Attorney General has business interests in Nairobi’s Sankara Hotel and the 60,000 acre Solio Ranch in Laikipia By GW Ngari Editor-at-Large @Undercover KE Charles Njonjo, Kenya’s former Attorney General who clocked 100 years this January, is a certified billionaire, a Croesus in real coin. Despite evident wealth, he once confessed he would only […]
I was so scared I would be shot in the streets after buying International House I brought a partner By Shifa Mwihaki Feature writer/Essayist @Undercover KE Having gained what he considered enough experience working for Shell selling gas, Sterling Winthrop selling drugs, Chris Kirubi got tired of the little room for upward mobility and quit […]
The Kenyattas are laughing their heads off at what Kenyans are calling it ‘Railway to Nowhere’ By GW Ngari Editor-at-Large @Undercover KE It was laughable, really, President Uhuru Kenyatta having beef with public servants engaged in private business. Conflict of interest, he called it, and asked the Attorney General- who is curiously his cousin- to […]