George muchai born
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Jacob Juma
‘He quickly became an enemy of the corrupt’
At p.m. on 6 May , the body of Kenyan businessman Jacob Juma was found lying in a pool of blood on Ngong Road in Nairobi.
Juma, who was born in in Mungore, a village in Kenya’s Bungoma County, had been a tireless crusader against corruption and a close ally of many politicians in the opposition. He was not afraid of condemning corruption; in fact, he openly talked about the widespread issue on social-media platforms.
Corruption in Kenya runs through many hands, allegedly involving, among others, politicians, civil servants and businesspeople. Some members of the country’s business community have been known to support dishonest politicians in order to protect their own business interests, and politicians frequently aim to reap big rewards from businesspeople during election campaigns.
Juma had refused to be part of this bent system. As a self-made billionaire in Kenya’s business fraternity, he had rubbed shoulders with t
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Puzzle of Sh30, payment hours before George Muchai&#;s murder
In a startling revelation before a Nairobi court, it has emerged that one of the suspects in the murder case of former Kabete MP George Muchai has been accused of receiving a mysterious payment just hours before the tragic killings.
According to testimony presented before Milimani Chief Magistrate Lucas Onyina, Raphael Kimani Gachii, alias Kim Butcher, denied claims that the late Muchai's driver, Stephen Wambugu, had sent him Sh30, hours before the tragic incident.
The incident, which occurred on the morning of February 7, , saw Muchai, Wambugu, and two of his bodyguards Samuel Kailikia and Samuel Matanta shot dead in cold blood at the Kenyatta Avenue-Uhuru Highway roundabout in Nairobi.
The four were driving in a Toyota Fortuner when a masked, lone gunman believed to be Kimani's co-accused Eric Isabwa shot them at close range at about am as they stopped to buy the day's newspapers
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Life and times of fiery trade unionist turned-astute politician George Muchai
| Late Kabete MP George Mukuru Muchai |
He loved swimming and playing chess. And in real life, Kabete MP George Mukuru Muchai swam a lot in the murky waters of politics, besides making well-calculated moves on the trade union chessboard.
By the time of his death, Muchai, who also a fan of badminton, was engagerad in a delicate balancing game of keeping two jobs – as an elected Member of Parliament and as deputy sekreterare general of the giant workers’ union, Central Organisation of Trade Unions (Cotu).
When his opponents tried to lock him out of the poll because he had not resigned as an official of a parastatal, Muchai fought off the attempt. Then he was sitting on the National Industrial Training Board (NITB) board, as a Cotu nominee.
When Nita board chairman Thomas Akuja wrote to Cotu sekreterare general Francis Atwoli, informing him of then Labour Minister John Munyes’ decisio