While Mary Wambui Mungai’s lawyers were in the Kiambu High Court arguing that the public has no further business knowing about her Sh2.2 billion tax evasion prosecution, Auditor-General Nancy Gathungu was finalising a report that hands the public something new to know. In her audit for the year ending June 2025, Gathungu flagged conflict-of-interest concerns […]
The businesswoman who once fled a police dragnet by hiding in a hotel linked to the sitting president, who paid fines for Sh2.2 billion in unpaid taxes and then watched the case disappear, is now asking a court to make the entire episode disappear from the internet too. This is reputation laundering dressed as legal rights and it must be exposed.
A high-stakes scandal involving Kenya’s Sh5 billion Digital Super-Highway project has ensnared prominent businesswoman and former Communications Authority (CA) board chairperson Mary Wambui Mungai, casting a harsh spotlight on alleged state capture and conflicts of interest within President William Ruto’s administration. At the heart of the controversy is Wambui’s company, Nightingale Enterprises Limited, which secured […]
Mary Wambui Mungai’s name could easily pass unnoticed but in the corridors of power and business world, it is a name to reckon with due to the influence she wields. Her company Puma Holdings Limited is involved in multibillion tender supplies with Kenya government and also in East and Central Africa. Her other firm is […]
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