Details are emerging that a Cabinet secretary, lawyer, MP and a former minister are among those who shared a secret apartment with businessman Jacob Juma who was killed three weeks ago.
According to the Nation, the apartment on Brookside Drive in Westlands christened ‘Penthouse’ and named Roses is a private address where the rich and powerful dine, drink and enjoy the company of women.
The unattractive address is the improbable centre of wheeler-dealing where hundreds of millions or even billions in deals are negotiated by the rich who frequent it for entertainment.
On the day Juma died, he had visited the old three-storey property and went straight to number nine which was his base for the past six years.
The property has 12 apartments and according to records at the gate as revealed by the Nation, 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.
The paper says that it is in the same apartment where the fall of Dubai Bank is believed to have been planned. Juma was the mastermind.
In addition, litigation was planned for 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 Nation says records show that in his last seven days, Juma had hosted at least four different women at the Penthouse as it is also popular with women.
The publication says that an hour before Juma’s lifeless body was discovered, he had made a phone call to a foreign ambassador promising to send him a dossier on corruption.
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, the paper reported.
This information, however, 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 surveillance material, the investigations department can only account for Juma’s last 45 minutes.
The police are yet to finalise the investigations and this could be a tip of the iceberg of the enigmatic life of Jacob Juma who portrayed himself as a defender of justice but whose dealings after his death seem to be contradicting that image.