Funeral parlours were unheard until 1988 all because a former Attorney General could not imagine his body refrigerated next to victims of mob justice… By Camy Akinyi-Gecaga Contributing Editor The City Mortuary is not a place you can try dating a mourner while waiting to collect your stiff. It has no cafeteria. The sitting area […]
Of all his patients, few were as precious as Moi. The pay was a king’s ransom, opportunities endless By Camy Akinyi- Gecaga Contributing Editor @Undercover KE Dr David Silverstein has seen the belly buttons, and not a few bottoms of Kenya’s most powerful, richest people: Bob Collymore, Zacchaeus Chesoni, Charles Njonjo and Daniel arap Moi […]
Esther Passaris has tried using calamities but she cannot hold a candle to Mr Baba Man By Jodi Ochieng’ Political economist Raila Odinga just loves tragedies, I tell you. Take the Likoni ferry disaster in which a mother and daughter drowned in their car pass in 2019. Raila did not let that disaster pass him […]
Field Marshal believe God had guided his grandmother’s hand and had chosen him to be the head of the whole tribe By GW Ngari Editor-at-Large Freedom fighter Dedan Kimathi, whose grave is said to have finally been located at Kamiti Maximum Prison (but Interior Ministry has since dismissed the find), 62 years after he […]
Freedom fighter entertained himself on stolen wooden beds in the forest as manhunt for his capture intensified By GW Ngari Editor-at-Large A former primary school teacher, a diary and timber clerk, a pig farmhand with a missing left index finger, a trader in hides and an admired but violent thief, were hanged in February 18, […]
Violent teacher who became a freedom fighter rinsed necks of those who left his Mau Mau army By GW Ngari Editor-at-Large After 62 years, the remains of freedom fighter Dedan Kimathi are said to have been found at Kamiti Maximum Prison, Nairobi, according to Evelyn Wanjugu Kimathi of the Dedan Kimathi Foundation. Wanjugu says the […]
His children said as a father, Maj-Gen Duncan Wachira was an ‘abusive, armed and violent psychopath’ By Undercover Reporter On October 23 this year, retired Maj-General Duncan Kireri Wachira, could have celebrated his 76th birthday. Instead, the former Air Force Commander who married his house help, succumbed to diabetes and high blood pressure at the […]
Police informers could be the sleepy shopkeeper, the gas delivery dude…your boda boda guy like Peter Ngugi who handed Kimani to his killers By Pascal MJ Owade Contributing Editor That shoe shiner with cracked lips and unpolished shoes could be a police informer. So could the roaster fanning maize cobs at the bus stop. Count […]
Mbiti slaved to challenge the missionary mindset which perceived Traditional African Religion as demonic and anti-Christian By Undercover Reporter He was Kenya’s foremost theological scholar on African religion. John S Mbiti, who coined the famous phrase ‘I am because we are and because we are, therefore I am” died in Switzerland, his home away from […]
Wilfred Murungi had worked in DR Congo, selling cigarettes in dollars on the bonnet of an old Land Rover. The returns were crazy By GW Ngari Editor-at-Large The First Law of Millions states that “every millionaire creates wealth at somebody else’s expense.” This is the second of a five part series Undercover will run on […]
