The late chain smoking Embakasi MP Muhuri Muchiri had palatial homes, but preferred sleeping in backyard bar rooms By Undercover Reporter He preferred sleeping in lodgings, didn’t care much about dressing, but had no qualms exchanging Land Cruisers thrice a year. When he was happy, the belly laugh came from deep down his Luhya diaphragm, […]
Gor Mahia chair Ambrose Rachier, Nairobi Hospital’s Dr Joseph Aluoch and former Vice President Moody Awori among loaded Masons By Undercover Reporter He was a Freemason, one of many in government including Cabinet Ministers, High Court judges, nabobs at the Central Bank of Kenya, eminent doctors, lawyers, pilots, architects and engineers. Kyale Mwendwa, scion of […]
He checked into a newly opened Kenyan hotel which had no life. Guests were hired and entire bill passed to Sean Connery! By Undercover Reporter @UndercoverKe He never knew he would leave Thika, Kenya to the stardom of Hollywood playing James Bond, the suave and cold-hearted Commander 007. Sean Connery, the original James Bond, was […]
Police Commissioner almost went mad hunting down Wacucu, Wanugu and Rasta- Kenya’s baddest crooks By Undercover Reporter He was the Police Commissioner when some criminals gave chicks AK-47 assault rifles as Valentine’s Day gifts. Flowers and chocolate were too common. It was also during the tenure of Duncan Wachira, who died at 73 this week, […]
Campus girls swooned over him, the ones from Central Kenya were mesmerized by his fluency in Kikuyu By Undercover Reporter He had a soft spot for campus girls. They more than loved him back. And it wasn’t just because he used their hand lotions while cracking jokes during Introduction to Sociology. Ken Ouko, the eminent […]
Charles Bukeko had many things going on for him: A carpet size malleable face, bulb like expressive eyes, toothy grin and a hot air balloon of a body By Undercover Reporter @UndercoverKe Charles Bukeko, was the actor who once trekked from his house in Uhuru Estate in Nairobi’s Eastlands to the Kenya National Theatre. He […]
The moneyed elite are about three things: wealth, power and prestige. Omar Lali had none By Undercover Reporter To marry her playboy guka from Lamu, Tecra Muigai, heiress to the Keroche billions, took Omar Lali to Naivasha, and asked for her parent’s blessings. After all, she had even become a Muslim, and again they had […]
The ever armed bow-tie wearing editor leaned back, put his gun on the table and intoned: ‘Chege, I am in charge here’ By Undercover Reporter He was born on the lips of the Rift Valley in Kijabe, the place missionaries banned alcohol and cigarettes. Chege Mbitiru, distinguished editor and journalist, spent 50 years observing life […]
Funny how working as a probation officer almost made him become a policeman By Undercover Reporter In a country where celebrities are near empty heads reeling from 15 minutes of fame, he rose from reading the lunchtime radio news bulletin, to television anchor and then professor, all the while skirting the wind of stardom that […]
Other band members were not as lucky. They began dying. Ten are in Lang’ata cemetery, 1000 kilometres from home By Undercover Reporter He cried easily when asked about the former band members of Super Mazembe. Kasongo wa Kanema, was among the last crew standing, his recent death, marking an end to Congolese musicians who immigrated […]
