The Rise of the Untouchable Billionaire KingMaker|Jimmy Wanjigi

From managing private garbage collection in the 1980s to engineering the 2013 Jubilee presidential coalition, Jimi Wanjigi operated for decades as Kenya’s ultimate political shadow broker. But what happens when the very empire you constructed turns its security forces against your own estate?In this complete documentary breakdown by Brian Berur for The African Reporter, we unpack the high-stakes story of Jimi Wanjigi: his upbringing inside Kenya’s post-colonial elite, the financial architecture of Kwacha Group, the private deal-making behind the 2013 election, the fallouts over multi-billion-shilling infrastructure tenders, and the 72-hour paramilitary siege on his Muthaiga residence. Finally, we examine his step into front-line politics as Safina Party leader challenging state economic policies. #JimiWanjigi #KenyaPolitics #TheAfricanReporter