From fabricated forgery charges and engineered arrests to parliamentary scandals and a succession war inside the Patel family, a 7.4-acre plot in Mavoko has peeled back the veneer of philanthropy behind one of Kenya’s most powerful industrial empires. The Ramjis survived. Now they want blood.
The philanthropy program which is funded by Hasu Patel, the proprietor of the cement firm has been a blessing that has morphed into a security catastrophe for the city.
Mombasa Cement Company tycoon Hasmukh Kanji Premji Patel has been dragged into a family succession dispute. The dispute involves the estate of his late brother Arvind Kanji Premji Patel and Moza Abdillahi, who bore two kids with Arvind. Hasmukh, who was appointed executor of his elder brother Arvind’s will, has been accused by Moza and […]
In one end of the coastal region, Mombasa Cement Company is getting praises thanks to the philanthropy by its owner Hasmukh Patel popularly known as Asu. Most residents of Mombasa have long enjoyed his food program, settling of hospital bills and sorting out their many problems. In the neighboring county of Kilifi, the song is […]
Locals around coastal region led by “Concerned Citizen” human rights activist Bradley Ouna have protested against the alleged land grabbing by Mombasa Cement Company. The group has raised an alarm over the alleged grabbing of a road reserve around Mombasa’s Railway’s roundabout. “We are calling on the county government of Mombasa, the National Land […]
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