Bharat Thakrar · LEAD
Inside Bharat Thakrar’s Plot for a Hostile Scangroup Takeover
Five years after being thrown out of the company he built from a one-room agency into East Africa’s most powerful advertising empire, Bharat Thakrar is coming back. With a ruinous Sh3.3 billion in aggregate losses piling up under WPP’s watch, a share price in freefall, and a Sh4.5 billion lawsuit still in play, the founder is rallying minority shareholders in an audacious bid to reclaim the boardroom. But is this the return of a wronged patriarch or a wounded tycoon’s act of revenge? This investigation goes inside the scandal, the numbers, the racialism claims, the secret WhatsApp messages, and the corporate power struggle that has turned Kenya’s most celebrated advertising firm into a cautionary tale.