Archbishop will be buried at the Holy Family Basilica when mourners have been restricted from funerals By Undercover Reporter When he became a Catholic priest, it was common for boys from poor families to seek spiritual and creature comforts in church: Three square meals, nice houses, Parish cars, a cellar with choice whiskies. Archbishop […]
Country music made Godfather hat, jeans, leather jacket and cowboy boots the dress code of Kikuyu musicians By Undercover Reporter This legendary American country musician greatly influenced the spread of One-Man-Guitar and its Mugithi craze Kenya. Kenny Rogers, the silver haired, full-bearded sandpapered crooner, died of natural causes at his home in Georgia, USA, at […]
The multibillion Fourways Junction off Kiambu Road made Sam and Nancy Gatabaki fabulously wealthy By Undercover Reporter He was buried inside the Sh30 billion Fourways Junction estate, just 500 metres from upmarket Runda in Nairobi. Though a scion of the famous Gatabaki family from Kiambu County, not many Kenyans had heard of Dr Sam Gatabaki until […]
His flagship businesses include the Swiss Lenana Mount Hotel in Milimani and Nginyo Towers along Koinange street By Undercover Reporter @Undercover KE He was a poor, orphaned young adult of 25 when Kenya earned her independence in 1963. Lawrence Nginyo Kariuki died this February 24, an old billionaire business magnate-who coined his dough from selling […]
He gave Moi, The Prince, the political bible whose teachings he used in his iron-fisted 24 year presidency By Undercover Reporter @Undercover KE He died when major news outlets were reporting the burial of retired President Daniel arap Moi on February 11. A wrong time to die if you were once a well-known political maverick, […]
Moi was a contradiction: He ran a beer distributorship, but never cut a drop. He fought to protect elephants, but carried an ivory rungu By Undercover Reporter @Undercover KE In the high school soccer team, he was nicknamed ‘wheelbarrow’ for his skills in defense. At the Nairobi Hospital where he died aged 95, medics […]
Those born in the 1990s might find it funny that most Sunday afternoons were spent watching NBA on KTN By Idris ‘Shoes’ Lule Sports Correspondent @Undercover KE He was so famous he did not need a surname. Like Oprah, Obama and Beyonce, you had to know who Kobe was, and if you didn’t, now you know […]
He ended up losing the high cost Peponi School, directorships, shares in blue chips and his children could not secure jobs By Undercover Reporter @Undercover KE He might not ring a loud bell if you never experienced life under a suffocating presidency in Kenya. But Charles Wanyoike Rubia was a politician with balls of steel […]
Parents were canned at the homestead of Chief Odera Akang’o for not taking their children to school By Undercover Reporter @Undercover KE He has a plant named after him, a road as well at the Chiromo Campus in Nairobi. Prof John O. Kokwaro who withered from the garden of life on December 13 aged 79, […]
The President was accompanied by a retinue of Permanent Secretaries and eight Cabinet Minister- three of whom got saved By Undercover Reporter @Undercover KE Boys born in Kenya when he first came here in June 1988 were named after him. German evangelist Reinhard Bonnke, who died at 79, gradually revolutionize open-air crusades into large scale […]
