Mike sonko wealth

Kenya’s capital is now run by an unelected major general. He succeeds a taxi overlord, Mike Sonko, who used the power and profits from his blinged-out transports to buy and barter his way to the governorship. His dramatic rise to power challenged the vested interests of the country’s ruling elite. So they fought back. And won. Journalist and Debunk Media’s Editor-in-Chief Isaac Otidi Amuke pieced this together from original reporting, public records and the utterances of the various participants.

The story is extraordinary. And true.

Part 1: THE MATATU KING

In the mid-2010s, before his 40th birthday, Mike Mbuvi Gidion Kioko Sonko straddled Nairobi’s Eastlands like a colossus; a king and his bulging fiefdom. Eastlands is many things, one among them being a constellation of colonial housing estates and their post-independence imitations. Once upon a time, Eastlands was the hallmark of arrival for the Black African elite. But Life of mike mbuvi sonko wife.