Part 1
THE JIMMY WANJIGI CONNECTION IN JACOB JUMA’S DEATH
The overwhelming presence of Jimmy Wanjigi around the events and funeral
of the late Jacob Juma or ‘JJ’ as he liked to be called has left many Kenyans
puzzled. Wanjigi is known to shun the limelight, and the combined photos
taken during the episode of Juma’s death are the only public photos of
Wanjigi to ever be circulated in the media.
As a journalist attached to one of the leading houses, when I received an
anonymous email by last Friday 13th by someone purporting to have shocking
details of JJ’s killing, I had dismissed it as another prank until the man spoke
of intimate details of JJ’s movements within Mombasa. My interest was
piqued and I traveled to Mombasa on Saturday to meet my informant. My
ticket is paid for by my employer if I come up with a good story, but this one
proved too hot for mainstream media. I have left out names in most of the
cases in order to protect my source; he is still working in Mombasa and living
there with his family. I will start with the general background to how JJ and
Jimmy ‘James Bond’ Wanjigi became close.
Initially, pundits stated that Jacob Juma was married to Wanjigi’s sister, which
isn’t true. However, even an in law relationship is not enough to coax James
Bond out of the shadows. This is a man who left his direct uncle, one Magari,
to hang alone in the Anglo leasing cases yet he was the architect of the huge
scandal. Wanjigi’s connection to JJ is much deeper, and I will summarize it
briefly:
As Jacob Juma sought to establish himself in business in the 90’s, like most
wheeler dealers, he registered a large number of briefcase companies in the
hope of chasing businesses of different portfolios. By the time he met
Miriam, his 3rd (or 4th) wife, he had a corterie of companies that were hardly
making any income. When he met Jimmy Wanjigi and the two became
friends, he was star struck by this living embodiment of what he had always
dreamt of becoming, a billionaire wheeler dealer. Jimmy at first was repulsed
by this flashy wannabe who was loud and abrasive, but Jimmy also
recognized that this abrasiveness, coupled with a flashy lifestyle in which the
man lived beyond his means was an asset that could be exploited.
For all his detractors, one thing everyone accepts about Wanjigi is that he is
extremely intelligent and able to sway people. Jimmy immediately
restructured JJ’s companies and took majority shares leaving JJ a director in
name only. JJ was to remain the face of the companies but all buttons were
pressed by Wanjigi. It is a favored business model of the man they call James
Bond, and it ensures that he never has to appear in court to fight legal
battles, which he finances behind the scenes.
Thus, JJ’s legal issues with Erad over NCPB, the mining problem with Balala,
and the KRA issues were all actually Wanjigi’s battles fought by proxy. JJ was
remunerated handsomely and kept tiny shares in the companies. To mask
this relationship, JJ was occasionally encouraged to send a few tweets
seemingly against Wanjigi.
After the 2013 elections, Wanjigi fell out with Uhuru over various deals that
the former had initiated through the previous regime but now found himself
blocked. One of the deals was the SGR, and Wanjigi felt particularly bitter
that the Uhuru administration whose election campaign he claims to have
funded heavily turned around and implemented the project in disregard to
Wanjigi’s machinations. During this time, Wanjigi had a bitter feud with Ann
Waiguru who he accused of frustrating more of his projects. Waiguru is
understood to have been one of the few who bluntly told Wanjigi to his face
that he should be in jail, and this led to a bitter spat which eventually Jimmy
won. (see http://kenya.rcbowen.com/talk/topic/jimmy-wanjigi-gets-the-lastlaugh-
on-waiguru/)
As 2015 started, the war between Wanjigi and Jubilee was full blown. Wanjigi
was now bankrolling the entire ODM campaign machinery. Wanjigi has always
had strong ties with Raila apart from a brief hiatus in 2013 when he had
switched allegiances. Before that, Wanjigi was a huge beneficiary of Raila’s
half of the coalition, he was the Kenyan face of the Chinese company CATIC
that had won the airport extension contract from which he got paid billions of
shillings, among other projects. Back to 2015 and his reuniting with Raila,
when Maghufuli’s election arrived, Raila was a regular visitor to Dar with
Wanjigi in tow. They would make the journey using one of Wanjigi’s
helicopters and often return the same day. This relationship has not gone
down well at all with many of Raila’s inner circle. They have zero trust for
Wanjigi, and also feel that his Anglo leasing past and shadowy deals paint
their leader in a bad light. The truth is that Raila, for all his weaknesses, is a
morally upright man with a big heart and feeling for Mwananchi. The
consensus is that Wanjigi is the exact opposite, cold and deadly, and would
turn on Raila and even kill him if he came in the way of Wanjigi’s deals and
profits. (As an ODM supporter, I now share the sentiments)
Jubilee would ultimately live to regret their fight with Jimmy and his
closeness to Maghufuli, and in the process, Maghufuli’s election would end
up costing Jacob Juma his life.
In 2014, James Bond aka Jimmy Wanjigi had developed a very keen interest
in the port of Mombasa. He wanted to take control of the second berth that
was to be built there, and in his usual fashion, he teamed up with several of
the companies (unknown to each other) bidding against each other through
proxies. In this way, Wanjigi would increase his chances of being the eventual
tender winner. Using his vast cash resources, Wanjigi set out as he always
does, to undermine the companies in opposition to his for the tender. The
face of the fight was between companies allied to Joho, Ali Punjani, Multiple
Hauliers, and other numerous giants of business. Fortunately for Jimmy, all
these were allies of Raila politically, and as they fought each other, he had
access to all of them and kept a finger in each. In typical fashion, he also
appointed a local ‘leg man’ on the ground to battle these interests and sling
mud wherever he wanted to create problems. This appointee was Jacob
Juma.
Juma was constantly in Mombasa in meetings with various wheeler dealers,
and a large part of his effort was to understand in detail the port operations
and wheeler dealers. While doing Wanjigi’s assignments, JJ was always
shrewd enough to use any information to his advantage, and make some
small (millions) money. This was done with the approval and encouragement
of Wanjigi, especially where such efforts contributed to the misery of Jubilee.
It was at the port that JJ ran into one of the largest corruption and criminal
rings in existence in Kenya where tens of millions are minted daily, for
contraband ranging from drugs to duty and tax evasion. In his usual detailed
fashion, JJ compiled a patient dossier of the entire network, implicating some
high ranking port officials and policemen. Upon handing it to Wanjigi, the
latter realized that a large portion of the report implicated some of his own
contacts, with a trail leading to Joho and Punjani. He advised JJ that this was
a matter best left to lie. However, JJ secretly felt that if he were to squeeze
the cartel for some of their proceeds by threatening to go public, there would
be no harm done.
By August last year, JJ had gone on the offensive, compiling enough dossier
to bully some of the key actors at the port into giving him a monthly cut of
their proceeds. They did not have the option of playing hardball because JJ’s
dossier was so complete that it was rumored he could close the entire port in
one day with the details he had. In November 2015, Juma had gone to
Mombasa to collect his usual cut when he learned that a particularly big deal
involving a consignment of vehicles had been released and a bribe of close
to Kshs half a billion had exchanged hands. Using his well paid informants
and connections, JJ got hold of all the copies of the documents and details of
all the officers involved. He demanded a cut of 30% of the proceeds;
otherwise he would table the details including his earlier files. The cartel
objected on the basis that their agreement was for payments on a monthly
basis, thus JJ was not entitled to this windfall. JJ would here none of it. An
attempt to appease him with 20 million was rebuffed, he told them to keep
their ‘petty cash’ and wait for KACC. At a point, tempers flared, and one
Kalenjin official told him to go to hell, that they also had ‘people up above’. JJ
thought that this man is close to the DP, and he retorted to his face to ‘go
and tell his boss to go to hell, JJ fears no man’. At this point, Wanjigi got to
learn of the problems in Mombasa and he called back JJ to Nairobi. That
evening, he hit the roof in one of his rare displays of anger. He wanted to
know why JJ was jeopardizing the ‘bigger picture’ by compiling dossier that
was not relevant to the business they were chasing. Wanjigi made some
discreet inquiries and learned that JJ may have gone too far implicating rogue
policemen in Mombasa who were considered highly dangerous. This was part
of the cartel that had killed Hassan Abdillahi of CID on 31st December 2005
and also Ali Abudul Bwana of NIS on 27th June 2010. Wanjigi was mad at the
way JJ was exposing himself for ‘small money’. That weekend, he was at the
exclusive Caramel lounge that he owns where he bitterly complained to a
former CS sacked by Uhuru, saying that the late JJ Kamotho was correct to
call these Luhyas cooks and watchmen, because how could any serious
businessman jeopardize a billion dollar operation for a few shillings pocket
money. This was not the first time Wanjigi was expressing such an opinion. In
2013, he often referred to Musalia Mudavadi as Mr Handout, claiming that
Musalia was useless enough to ask Wanjigi to bankroll his family holiday.
Wanjigi has never hidden his disdain for Luhyas, and to a similar extent, the
Luo cabal that hangs around Raila Odinga and asks Wanjigi for regular
handouts.
After the confrontation with Wanjigi, JJ was a worried man. He wanted to go
to the press asking for State security but Wanjigi would have none of it,
knowing very well that since JJ had regular contact with him, the state would
gain insights into what Wanjigi was doing if he started having police guards
in tow… JJ then asked Wanjigi to assign him two armed bodyguards from his
own private team. Wanjigi has eight bodyguards round the clock, all armed
to the teeth, drawn from ex GSU Recce who are paid upto 200,000 shillings
each. Wanjigi refused, in part because he is too paranoid for his own security.
After the attack on his parents in 2013 (see
http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000098466/former-mp-his-wifehospitalised-
after-brutal-gang-attack ), he allocated them two of his
bodyguards and is now down to six. He has to share the six between his
family and himself, and occasionally his mistress who has a three year old
son Wanjigi adores.
Wanjigi advised JJ to go public and claim that Jubilee wanted to kill him, in
such a way that any potential killer would realize that Jubilee would not
condone besmirching their name and if anything were to happen to Juma,
the hammer would come down heavily. This was the reason that JJ was to
later tweet on 15th December that the DP wanted to have him killed. Wanjigi
also reasoned that the DP would find a way to send word to his tribesman at
the port that JJ was not to be touched in view of the heat it would bring. In
January 2016, JJ once again visited the port, and to his shock, a similar deal
had been struck again! This time, he vowed to teach the officials a lesson if
they did not give him a cut. However, unlike in the past, JJ found his
informers either unable or unwilling to provide the paper trail. A return trip
in February met the same fate of zero documents. Fed up and angry, JJ
confronted the members of the cartel and threatened once again to expose
them using the old dossier. After protracted negotiations, he accepted a one
-off payment of Kshs 70 million in addition to his monthly collection.
Unknown to JJ, a decision had been reached to wipe him out because he was
proving too costly to the port cartel. JJ found himself between a rock and a
hard place, he could also not give the full information to his master Wanjigi.
When in February the port MD was fired by Jubilee along with senior
management, the cartel had a growing suspicion that JJ’s information had
somehow leaked and contributed to the removal of their henchmen. This was
the final nail in the coffin for JJ.
In the meantime, Wanjigi was driving a bigger agenda after failing to clinch
the berth at the port of Mombasa. The exit of the MD, Ndua Gichia, and his
team who Wanjigi had put in his pocket further complicated his efforts.
However, Raila had been having better success on the political war with
Jubilee. He had succeeded in convincing Maghufuli to offer critical
concessions to Uganda and ensure that Lapsset was collapsing, and with it
the SGR was tottering. It is said that Wanjigi was exuberant on the night that
Museveni announced he would use Tanzania for his oil.
Back to JJ, he had also sensed that the Mombasa cartel may be desperate,
though he actually was not the architect of the port sackings. By this time,
Wanjigi had given him full use of the old Mercedes he had bought years ago,
the armored KAL 007W. The number plate is a reference to the nickname he
likes, James Bond (007) Wanjigi. JJ took to using this vehicle daily and
showing off to everyone about it.
By April this year, the Mombasa cartel had assembled their squad. The first
option had been to kill JJ when he went there on his monthly visit, but this
proved complicated when a huge security cordon was thrown in Mombasa in
April over terror threats. The plotters could not wait long and decided to
execute the plan in early May before JJ collected his monthly cut. It is highly
unlikely that anyone will ever get the real identity of the attackers, but at
least two of the key suspects travelled from Mombasa in the early morning
hours of 5th May using a black Subaru station wagon. One of them is a police
marksman who has been in Mombasa for ten years but was formerly in the
GSU. He was among the officers that Maj Gen Ali transferred from the GSU to
vital installations after the Artur airport saga. Another three men supposedly
met the team in Nairobi and spent the afternoon around Westlands where
they knew JJ kept an apartment. While details are sketchy, it has emerged
that one of the people used was JJ’s own Mombasa informer who had earlier
given him details on the vehicles involved in evasion of duty, the man called
him from an unregistered sim card. This is how JJ was led into a trap where
his assassins lay waiting. After shooting him, they drove to Ngong road and
stage managed the scene.
They had no reason to search for any documents because they were not
interested in the Eurobond issue. However, unknown to them, JJ, thinking he
was going to discuss the matter of tax evasion of the cars with his informant,
had carried the documents pertaining to this issue. These are the documents
that the CID found in his car. Unknown to many, this is the source of the list
that KRA circulated at the end of last week listing cars whose duty had not
been paid. (see https://tuko.co.ke/129849-car-list-kenya-revenue-authoritylooking-
see.html)
Wanjigi must have been shocked but not surprised when he received the
news of Juma’s death. If he has a conscience, it must be telling him that he
lost a close ally who he probably could have taken better care of. Certainly,
had he provided Juma with two of his deadly security men, or paid for and
allowed him to seek government bodyguards, JJ would be alive today. His
tribal disdain for his own business henchman surely played a part in JJ’s sad
death.
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Who can read all that shit on a Monday? Please try to give us a summary of the juicy parts.
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very interesting read
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Should be in the Hekaya category.
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Wazi wazi!..let’s part 2 chap chap!
Damn it! This is no peasant business! 
Pesa, pombe, siasa na wanawake, itafanya wanaume wauane.
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copy pasted the attachment, you dnt expect all guys with phones to download and read the attachement.
It is more organised in the pdf attachment. Wachana na huyu ame copy paste.
soma its interesting
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If even 20% of this hekaya is true then JJ had been begging for death for sometime.
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Huyu ame-copy paste ndie anajua Sisi watu wa anti-crik apan tambua links…
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I knew it would eventually come out. Wanjigi secret corrupt network is being dismantled one at a time.
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And why the hell would a self confessed ODM supporter feel the need to include this kind of information. Doesn’t it show that Baba has been sabotaging the Kenyan economy?
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I agree!
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Chilling
Nice1… i bet Jicho Pevu goons are biting their fingers when they get such a read after they realize, they blew a nice story by rushing and concentrating on mad smearing an innocent bystanders
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Seems someone is busy trying to discredit jj’s and probably hope to dissuade families from making attempts at this wealth…question is why?
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Fascinating story, and by far the most plausible of all the theories so far! Thanks.
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