A Cabinet secretary, lawyer, MP and a former minister are among those who shared a secret apartment with businessman Jacob Juma who was killed 20 days ago.
The apartment in Westlands, Brookside Drive, christened Penthouse and named Roses is a private address where the rich and powerful dine, drink and enjoy the company of women.
From the outside, the property looks unattractive — but it is the improbable centre of wheeler-dealing where hundreds of millions or even billions in deals are negotiated and where the rich frequent for entertainment.
On the day he died, Jacob Juma had visited the old three-storey property with 12 apartments and went straight to number nine — his base for the past six years.
According to records at the gate, in the previous week, the apartment had hosted the former minister, the Nairobi lawyer and the MP from Western.
Months earlier, the Cabinet secretary had been a regular visitor.
It is in this apartment that the fall of Dubai Bank is believed to have been planned — with Juma as the mastermind — and litigation planned, ranging from various cases against Deputy President William Ruto for alleged land grabbing, to efforts to have Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero pay for Mumias Sugar Company debts.
The Penthouse is also popular with women and records show that in his last seven days, Juma had hosted at least four different ones.
Our investigations reveal that an hour before his lifeless body was discovered, Juma had made a phone call to a foreign ambassador, promising to send him a dossier on corruption.
Jacob Juma is said to have told a relative later that the envoy had told him to send him a text message and that the envoy would set up a meeting in a week.
This information is missing in a brief given by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations on the ongoing investigations into the killing.
Despite having his mobile phones and the support of a surveillance software at the Jogoo House Command Centre fitted with automated number plate recognition cameras and hundreds of CCTV cameras mounted on virtually every part of the city, the investigations department can only account for Juma’s last 45 minutes.
;DailyNation
