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The East African
Saturday May 08 2021
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Nairobi is home to 75pc of Kenya billionaires
The heavy concentration of billionaires in Nairobi indicates inequality in the country’s economic development.
Africa’s rich have suffered the most from the economic impact of the pandemic, with AfrAsia Bank saying the share of super-rich persons in the continent dropped by nine percent last year.
In Nairobi, the number of billionaires shrank by 10, accounting for 38 per cent of the persons whose net assets fell below $10 million.
Tuesday April 27 2021
By BRIAN NGUGI
The heavy concentration of billionaires in Nairobi indicates inequality in the country’s economic development.
Africa’s rich have suffered the most from the economic impact of the pandemic, with AfrAsia Bank saying the share of super-rich persons in the continent dropped by nine percent last year.
First time Ainabkoi MP, William Chepkut opens up to
The Nairobian about politics and being PA to reclusive power man, the late, Nicholas Biwott.
How did you meet Kanu era powerful minister, Nicholas Biwott?
While a student at Kenya Polytechnic in 1991, I approached Biwott, then the Energy minister, to help me clear my fees because I believed he would help me complete my education. He did, in full, a week later.
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And how did you end up as his personal assistant?
When I went to seek for financial assistance, he told me to wait because he was travelling out of the country. But he didn’t say when he would be back, only that I should wait for him at DT Dobie along Koinange Street, Nairobi. Without any telephone, there was no way I could reach him so I religiously visited the shop every morning till evening for a week.
Biwott is dead
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Biwott aka total man died at Nairobi Hospital, Personal Assistant William Chepkut has confirmed.
Biwott served as a civil servant,Member of Parliament and government minister, during which time he held eight senior ministerial positions
Biwott was born in Chebior Village, Keiyo District, Rift Valley Province in 1940.
Biwott was a Member of Parliament for 28 years, having been first elected in 1974 as the MP for the Keiyo South Constituency until December 2007, when he lost his seat to Jackson Kiptanui arap Kamai of the Orange Democratic Party.
Biwott had however been ailing for some time and erroneous reports of his death were posted previously on social media.