Uhuru's fortune over exaggerated since he entered politics way back in 2002

Uhuru Kenyatta | His Family, Wealth in question by Pandora news paper

Uhuru Kenyatta is the son of the First President of Kenya Mzee Jomo Kenyatta. And for one thing, Uhuru was raised in a wealthy and politically powerful Kikuyu family. In fact, Uhuru is one of the most prominent and equally rich among many Kenyan businessmen and politicians.

Accounting part of his wealth source from his inheritance and adding to a long list of his cumulative business empires. Eventually, this is after he assumed some responsibility for managing his family’s extensive business holdings.

He held several government posts before being elected president of Kenya in 2013. And thereafter, being reelected in the presidential office as of 2017.

Uhuru was previously associated with the Kenya Africa National Union before joining The National Alliance, one of the allied parties that campaigned for his reelection during the 2017 general elections. Meanwhile, the International Criminal Court (ICC) had started an investigation into the violence that followed the December 2007 polls.

In late 2010 Kenyatta among the list of names (by the ICC) as one of the six suspects. Thought to be most responsible for instigating post-election violence. However, he immediately disputed the allegations and proclaimed his innocence.

Where was Uhuru Kenyatta born?

At St. Marys he played as a winger for the school’s rugby team and he also briefly worked as a teller at the Kenya Commercial Bank. Thereafter, he went on to study political science and economics at Amherst College in Massachusetts.

After his return to Kenya, he started a horticultural business that became quite successful.

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First, Kenya’s first President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta married four wives, Grace Wahu, Edna Clarke, Grace Wanjiku and Mama Ngina. And his children included President Uhuru Kenyatta, by his fourth and youngest wife, Ngina.

Notably, Uhuru Kenyatta was born Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta on October 26, 1961, in Nairobi, Kenya. Not forgetting, he is the son of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s first President, and his fourth wife Mama Ngina Kenyatta. Basically, his family hails from the Kikuyu, a Bantu ethnic group.

His given name “Uhuru” is from the Swahili term for “Freedom“, and was given to him in anticipation of Kenya’s upcoming independence. During his schooling life, he attended St. Mary’s School in Nairobi, between 1979 and 1980.

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