Sam Njunuri News Today

More than 1,000 "priceless" works of African art were discovered in the shed in 2020, prompting an investigation, and a now-canceled auction.

The court-ordered sale of objects that had been stored for years at the expense of taxpayers in Houston was called off the night before

KPRC 2 Investigates uncovered the secretly stored art in a Harris County maintenance shed. Hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent to makeover the shed and store art under the control of Commissioner Rodney Ellis.

Sam Njunuri owns the 1,300-piece African art collection and said he filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy the day before the auction was scheduled.

It is undoubtedly one of the stories KPRC 2 Investigates hears more about than any other in recent memory: A February 2020 investigation into a massive private African art collection we uncovered secretly stored inside of an old Harris County maintenance shed at the expense of taxpayers.