Former Cabinet Secretary says he was trailed by unmarked vehicles in Karen, abandoned his car and sought refuge with a Kiambu family as speculation of abduction swept the country
DCI says family denied detectives access to Raphael Tuju’s residence as investigations into his disappearance intensify after his car was found in Karen.
A development bank was supposed to build dreams. Instead, armed police, masked operatives, and a London judgment dismantled one man’s Karen empire. And the story of how it happened should frighten every prospective EADB borrower in East Africa.
While the nation watched the spectacle of Rigathi Gachagua’s impeachment on October 1, 2024, a firm controlled by a businessman with deep ties to President William Ruto’s orbit was quietly sealing the purchase of former Cabinet Secretary Raphael Tuju’s Sh3.5 billion Karen empire for a fraction of its value. What followed is a story of judicial suspense, a defiant land registrar, armed police at dawn, and a prime Nairobi property that changed hands under circumstances that have set the legal establishment ablaze.
In a pre-dawn operation that has stunned the country and raised grave questions about the use of state security forces in commercial debt enforcement, former Cabinet Secretary Raphael Tuju was ejected from his Dari Business Park in Karen, Nairobi, in the early hours of Saturday by more than 50 armed officers who arrived in unmarked vehicles, covered their faces from his camera and declined to produce a single court order.
Former judge Joseph Mutava allegedly confessed he collected a bribe for Lady Justice Josephine Mongare. One of the men arrested claims to have fathered a child with the judge. A Senior Counsel at one of Kenya’s most prestigious law firms stands accused of forging affidavits filed in the same matter. The arbitration award on which everything rests is alleged to have been corruptly procured. The Judicial Service Commission, informed of the prior complaints against Mongare and Justice Alfred Mabeya, watched both judges allegedly bribe their way clear. And Raphael Tuju, a man the same institutions want to evict, has vowed to die at his own gate. Nelson Havi says we are all broke. The question is who has been getting paid.
A former judge confesses. A sitting High Court judge is named. A bribery scheme worth Sh10.4 million is dismantled on the same day the presiding judge delivers her verdict. The Judicial Service Commission, which has now been told directly by Nelson Havi who the money was meant for, has issued no statement. Former Cabinet Secretary Raphael Tuju vows to die before vacating his Karen property. And the institution that is supposed to hold the bench accountable has, once again, chosen silence.
A senior partner faces criminal prosecution over an alleged will forgery. Another faces a DCI complaint over fabricated court documents. The Attorney General has now entered the arena. For one of East Africa’s oldest and most decorated law firms, the walls are closing in.
Senior Counsel Fred Ojiambo of Kaplan and Stratton, a man who moves in the rarefied air of Kenya’s corporate elite, now finds himself the subject of a criminal complaint lodged by a man who is clearly not afraid of consequences.
The court had ordered Lands Cabinet Secretary Alice Wahome and Principal Secretary Nixon Korir to replace Nyandoro with Peter Mburu Ng’ang’a.
Tuju also alleges that four of the seven SCoK judges have been seen in viral videos “exhibiting drunkenness in public,” undermining their credibility as role models.
A Nairobi court has issued warrant of arrest against a senior official of East Africa Development Bank (EADB) for allegedly giving false information in property dispute involving former Cabinet Secretary Raphael Tuju. However, magistrate Dolphina Alego put the warrant in abeyance for 24 hours pending production of on order of the high court that has […]
Former Jubilee Party Secretary General Raphael Tuju has been unveiled as the Executive Director of the Azimio la Umoja secretariat. His appointment was announced on Wednesday, April 6, by the former prime minister Raila Odinga who is Azimio’s Presidential flag bearer. Tuju’s new role will be to coordinate Azimo coalition parties and also to lead […]
