I’m watching this senator Sakaja clip on Churchill about him saying that he bought a Benz and lived in a fancy apartment while he was a 4th year student in UON.
Ati alikuwa na biashara kwa ground kama saloon, kinyozi, laundry etc na hapo ndio alikuwa anatoa pesa ya ku-finance lifestyle yake na kujilipia school fees.
What he doesn’t tell you is that he was part of Kibaki’s campaign team in 2007 elections, and director of the Vijana na Kibaki lobby group; that’s where the real money came from.
Nakumbuka Jaguar akisema ati alifungua 10 kinyozi joints in Nairobi West, and the rest is history.
Huyu Jamal naye anasema ati alikula school fees, akananua matatu akaiweka route ya South C; and the rest is history.
Ata Mike Sonko alianza na matatu moja alafu akaiingia real estate.
It seems to be a common narrative nowadays that when most people make it, they give fake success stories about how they made it.
In fact, most birrionares in Nairobi will barely scratch the surface when you ask them how they made it.
If you’re a peasant, it’s easy to believe those stories especially because they’re all over social media.
But once you get into the underworld and see how people make money, you can call “bullshit” from a mile away.
Clean money is a myth msee. Ndivyo uomoke lazima watu waumie mahali. That’s capitalism 101. Jaguar has been successful for a while…in 2010/11 he had a BMW and a Harrier. Alikuwa anapenda kutesa sana Westy with silver number plates.
Then you must know his brother called Nick… tulitesa hii Nairobi sana na huyo kijana around 2003. We made legit money and balled hard.
I remember a skinny and shy
looking jaguar visiting us severally…months later jama akapata pesa sijui hata ilitoka wapi
For every new millionaire, there are thousands of people slaving for them. Or losing their wealth. Capitalism is brutal transfer of resources from the unwashed to a few owners of capital who are only obliged to provide enough to their drones to live. It is the natural order.
I mean look at a bee colony. A queen bee can live for up to five years while the drones die after 4 weeks of slave labor.