Investigations

America’s Reluctant Guest: How Kenya’s Most Powerful Finance Boss Fled a Contempt Conviction, Allegedly Shielded a Solar Company from Tax, and Is Now Hiding in the United States Behind a Medical Excuse the Courts Have Already Rejected

Charles Korgoren Kerich, for nearly a decade the most indispensable technocrat at Nairobi City Hall, is now a convicted contempt fugitive cooling his heels in America while Kenyan courts have issued an arrest warrant, a German investor suffered alleged death threats and a Sh52,000 credit card fraud linked to his business associates, and Sh65.3 million in cash was unearthed from under the nose of his departmental colleague. His story is Kenya’s impunity problem distilled into one man’s spectacular flight from accountability.