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Billionaire banker, Mugo Mungai, goes down fighting Daniel Moi’s injustices
Thursday January 25 2024
Mugo Mungai, Founder of Capital Finance Limited and Pioneer Building Society.
Shortly after Yoweri Museveni came to power in Uganda, in 1986, Kenyan banker Mugo Mungai flew to Kampala with a burning mission: He wanted to open a new branch of his Pioneer Building Society and Capital Finance.
The business idea was right, but the timing was wrong. Former President Daniel Moi suspected that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and Museveni were working against him. He was also suspicious of wealthy Mt Kenya entrepreneurs and their domination of national politics.
Mungai, who passed on this week at 81, would face the wrath of President Moi’s government over that visit. He lost his bank and all his properties.
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