Uhuru kenyatta net worth
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As Uhuru Kenyatta mounted a political comeback by campaigning against corruption, his family’s secret fortune was growing offshore, a massive new leak shows.
At his annual State of the Nation address last fall, President Uhuru Kenyatta mounted the podium at Kenya’s Parliament to acknowledge that too many Kenyans live in poverty and too many officials loot the country’s public resources.
The son of Kenya’s first president and leader of one of Africa’s largest economies, the 59-year-old Kenyatta urged lawmakers to join him in fighting corruption and yet again declared “the centrality of transparency, accountability and good governance as the anchors of sustainable development.”
But a massive cache of newly leaked documents show that Kenyatta’s family has for years been secretly accumulating a personal fortune behind offshore corporate veils.
Kenyatta, along with his mother, sisters and brother, have for decades shielded wealth from public scrutiny through foundations and companies in tax havens, including Panama, with assets worth more than $30 million, according to records obta
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Uhuru Kenyatta
President of Kenya from April 2013 to September 2022
For other uses, see Uhuru (disambiguation).
Uhuru Muigai KenyattaCGH ( born 26 October 1961) is a Kenyan politician who served as the fourth president of Kenya from 2013 to 2022.[1][2] The son of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first president,[3] he previously served as Deputy Prime Minister from 2008 to 2013.
Daniel Arap Moi had picked Kenyatta as his preferred successor. However, he was defeated by the then opposition leader Mwai Kibaki in the 2002 election, and Kibaki was subsequently sworn in as the President.[4] Kenyatta served as the member of parliament (MP) for Gatundu South from 2002 to 2013 and also as Deputy Prime Minister to Raila Odinga from 2008 to 2013.[citation needed] Currently he is a member and the party leader of the Jubilee Party of Kenya, whose popularity has since dwindled. Kenyatta was previously a member of the Kenya Africa National Union (KANU), a political party that had led Kenya to independence in 1963. He resigned from KANU in 2012
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Uhuru Kenyatta was born in on 26th October 1961. He is the son of the founding president of Kenya, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and his fourth wife, Mama Ngina Kenyatta. The name Uhuru is borrowed from Swahili and it means freedom. Perhaps Jomo Kenyatta gave Uhuru Kenyatta this name in anticipation of Kenyas freedom from the British colonizers. Kenya gained independence on 12th December 1963, replacing the Union Jack with the Kenyan flag.
Uhuru Kenyatta went to St. Marys School, a strict Roman Catholic School in Nairobi for his A levels. While at St. Marys Uhuru Kenyatta played rugby as a winger. After this, he held a small stint as a cashier at Kenya Commercial Bank, Kipande House Branch, Nairobi in 1979. In 1981, Uhuru Kenyatta went to Amherst college in Massachusetts, United States, where he studied political science and economics. He graduated from Amherst College with a Bachelors degree in political science and economics in 1985.
Uhuru Kenyatta formally joined politics in the 1997 election when he contested for the Gatundu South parliamentary seat but lost to Moses
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