Twiga Foods · LEAD
The Land He Could Not Aggregate: How Peter Njonjo Built Twiga Foods To Conquer Kenya’s Food Markets Then Quietly Moved The Spoils To His Own Name
For a decade Peter Njonjo was sold to investors and to State House as the man who would drag Kenya’s informal food economy into the twenty first century. The record now shows a different story: a Coca Cola executive who used a start up’s social mission as leverage to extract state land, state credit and state cover, before handing a hollowed out company to foreign creditors and walking away with a 20,000 acre irrigation concession registered quietly in his own name.
