The most expensively dressed man in Kenya also has two rooms full of shoes, over 1000 Brioni neckties By Shifa Mwihaki Feature writer/Essayist @UndercoverKe The late billionaire Chris Kirubi often bragged he was easily Kenya’s most expensively dressed dude. The wool for his suits, he told Going Out Guide magazine a few years back, was […]
Kenyans love mahindi choma with pili pili, but that mucakwe they throw away have other uses beyond feeding cows, lighting fires By Shifa Mwihaki Feature writer/Essayist @UndercoverKe Kenyans love roast maize. Kwanza when hot off the wire mesh. It goes very well with that red pili pili which turns the mouth into a peppery sauna. […]
The three children would trouser home Sh400 million each if wealth was shared equally By Shifa Mwihaki Feature writer/Essayist @UndercoverKe A billionaire’s mpango’s children have lunged for a piece of the Sh4 billion inheritance bonanza including rental income from Nginyo Towers on Koinange street, Nairobi. Billionaire Nginyo Kariuki, father of six, died at 82 this […]
But auctioneers rarely find chics to auction, would you believe it? By Mbatia wa Njambi Visiting Thinker Forget Simon, the Tinder Swindler who took women to the cleaners in the name of love. Simon Hayut, now the subject of a Netflix documentary film, used social media dating App, Tinder, to siphon money from lone wolves. […]
His victims sue him, but shortly active death threats see them gassing towards the airport, fleeing By Pascal Owade Contributing Editor/crime @UndercoverKe Chris Obure is Nairobi’s resident gold scammer. Just four years ago, he conned a Venezuelan lawyer Sh200 million in a botched gold deal. Deals worth less than Sh100 million are for his juniors. Like […]
Nairobi Senator downgraded from Karen to Lavington ‘so that I can have lunch at home’ By Shifa Mwihaki Feature writer/Essayist @UndercoverKe Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja-the former guitarist for a gospel band- not only recently pleaded guilty to drinking after curfew hours, but has also been running away from his landlord-fellow politician Musalia Mudavadi or ‘MaDvD’. […]
Is there anything wrong when the Head of State ‘thanks his body’ with excessive drinking? By Mbatia wa Njambi Visiting Thinker Uhuru Konyagi. Jameson Wanjohi. Lawson Wamashati. Kinyua. Drunken Master. Commander-in-Drinks. These are the counter of nicknames Kenyans had tagged former President Uhuru Kenyatta on social media. They are all related to his drinking habits […]
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 […]
The fiery Gatundu South MP says he hasn’t cut a drop since January By Special Correspondent You vowed to keep off alcohol at the beginning of the year. How is that going? It’s going well. I have not had any alcohol since the beginning of the year. I am not a slave to the […]
In one month alone, Tecra Muigai blew Sh1.6 million on her lover. By the time of her death, her account had Sh1, 500 By GW Ngari Editor-at-Large @UndercoverKe Playboy Omar Lali, the freed lover of the late Keroche heiress, Tecra Muigai, was in the money- her money. Bank and M-Pesa account transfers from Tecra now […]
