President’s troubled, jobless grandson has pending rent arrears besides a Sh1 million child upkeep stipend By GW Ngari Editor-at-Large Collins Moi, the jobless, alcoholic grandson of the late President Daniel arap Moi has gone to court seeking a piece of his inheritance from his guka’s Sh300 billion estate-from which he laments of being disinherited. His […]
Editor’s Choice
Philip Ochieng: He lived like a Pasha, died like a pauper
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 […]
Lorna Irungu: I blame no one for the life I have lived
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 […]
Hush-Hush: Magufuli & President Uhuru’s dentist succumbed to ‘Miss Rona’
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 […]
Romeo must die: Why Kiambu women kill lovers between October and December!
If you escape, there is still April and June, and most murders happen at the bar or home – never by the roadside By Pascal Owade Contributing Editor/Crime You are likely to be murdered by your wife around October and December -especially if she’s from Kiambu, the county with Kenya’s highest crime rate and home […]
Stingy Men Association: Why President Kibaki never gave money, threw drinks…carry a wallet!
Why do women and the society dislike the loaded who are mean, yet it’s their money? By GW Ngari Editor-at-Large Some Kenyan men could do very well as faces of the online Stingy Men Association of Kenya. Like the late President Mwai Kibaki who died aged 90. He was a well-documented tightwads whose stinginess bordered […]
Money never sleeps: Smoking out faceless billionaire John Kibunga Kimani
If you’re a Safaricom subscriber, a diehard drinker of EABL products, you make him filthy rich By GW Ngari Editor-at-Large @UndercoverKe Reclusive billionaire Dr John Kibunga Kimani, one of Kenya’s Uber-rich serial investors, can get lost in a crowd of three. Until recently, there was no photo of him in the public domain. As is […]
Killer deals: When dead PCEA pastor stole Sh2.8 million from dead businessman!
Rev Peter Kania withdrew Sh3 million after his death and four months later his deactivated cell phone cleaned three bank accounts dry By Pascal Owade Contributing Editor/Crime It was the bizarre case of a pastor whose accounts lost Sh3 million before he was buried and his cell phone number used to steal Sh2.8 million from […]
Senator Yusuf Haji: ‘Go to hell with your little shaggy government devils’!
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 […]
Mark Too: Mpango’s kids demanding share of Sh500 million, 19 farms, houses in Muthaiga, Lavington
The mpango’s kids of late billionaire Nginyo Kariuki are also demanding a piece of his Sh4 billion estate By Shifa Mwihaki Feature writer/Essayist @UndercoverKe The late politician Mark Too had two wives and 11 children-four from mpango wa kando-and now crawling from the woodworks demanding their share of his multibillion shilling estate. It is a […]