Nicknamed ‘Father Abraham’, rugby legend was blessed with a ‘promiscuous gene variant’ By Undercover Reporter He lived under one roof with his four breathing wives. That is quite a domestic tackle, but Kenya’s best rugby tackler-the late Benjamin Ayimba-was up to the scrum. The ragger legend, nicknamed ‘Father Abraham’ succumbed to cerebral malaria at the […]
Accountants at Nation Media often warned new journalists against living the life he had led despite his intellectual arrogance By Undercover Reporter He never believed in God, thought the bible an ‘interesting’ book of enriching anthropology. He hated Luo traditions, wrist watches too. But he loved whiskey, three-piece Savile Row suits with paisley kerchief at […]
We dined with President Clinton; I realized she was my partner for life By Undercover Reporter She was married to a man Forbes magazine named among Africa’s Most Influential in 2015. But few could pick Edwin Macharia in a crowd of three. See, this dude could call any president in the world and get an […]
President Uhuru has a team of doctors who keep to the shadows unlike his predecessors By Undercover Reporter Death, as it does to all men, finally came to Tanzanian President Dr John Pombe Magufuli. He died of heart complications related to ‘Miss Rona’ which most suspected all along, anyway. And so did President Uhuru Kenyatta’s dentist, Dr Andrew Machua […]
He got a driver jailed for three months for refusing to give him a lift By Undercover Reporter @UndercoverKe One day at 7:30 am in June 1988 when Kenya was still in democratic Stone Age, a big man in government made a small man go to jail over a lift. It was a case of […]
Former prison warden and President’s nephew was Kenya’s largest timber poles dealer By Undercover Reporter @UndercoverKe As he sipped wine at a private member’s club last Friday, death was smoking a joint waiting for Hosea Kiplagat at the Karen Hospital. Kiplagat-a Moi political orphan- had left his Karen home along Quarry Lane to Invergara Club […]
Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, his dad was the first Kisii to own cars, grow coffee By Undercover Reporter He had a soft spot for Kikuyu women. Of his five wives-who gave him 20 children-two were from Mt Kenya: One, the sister of a Cabinet Minister’s wife, the other a soldier’s daughter […]
Musician had long suspected family deaths could be linked to sidestepping Kikuyu traditions Weighed down by earning Sh10 ferrying sacks of maize in rural Subukia, Mugithi One-Man guitarist Mighty Salim, borrowed Sh300 from the sister of a friend to seek fortunes in Nairobi. That was in 1999 when the class eight graduate came looking or […]
‘I is the Mayor… I am not Mr Clean myself,’ said the fitness addict who took dumbbells to hospital By Undercover Reporter Among the many Mayors of Nairobi included a gun runner, a gambling mogul, a boxer, a runaway financier, the President’s daughter. Then there was a semi-literate comedian with investments in hospitality: John Mwangi […]
Having divorced his mzungu wife early, former Minister crushed most nights at the home of PR empress, Gina Din- Kariuki By Undercover Reporter He often called himself handsome, strange for a man. Much of what he did appeared like a joke including gunning for the Presidency in 2017 as an independent candidate. The late Joe […]
