Powerful and wealthy businessmen are lining up billions to fund political bigwigs as campaigns for August 8 heat up.
Here is the list of those funding Raila Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta.
Uhuru's team is made of seven people.
They include:
John PN Simba (business guru and prominent advocate)
Titus Ibui (secretary)
Paul Ndung’u SportPesa architect (treasurer)
Peter Munga (Equity Bank founder - member)
Joel Kibe (CMC director - member)
Peter Muthoka (business mogul - member)
Pius Ngugi (member).
“We have come together as friends of Jubilee but you need to understand that we are not the only ones supporting the party. For your information, there are so many groups that have come together to support the JP campaigns, the majority of which the President does not even know exists. For example, our pay-bill number has received support from many people — some are sending Sh50 and Sh100 and we really appreciate it because this is a significant expression of goodwill,” said an insider in the team.
Raila’s camp is made of the following:
Jimi Wanjigi
Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho
Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero
Former Kenya Ports boss Brown Ondego.
NASA says its fund raising efforts will focus on the rank and file members of the coalition. Musalia Mudavadi, who is the chairman of the NASA presidential campaign, said the coalition’s fund-raising strategy would ensure they are not beholden to tycoons when they take over the government after the August 8 poll.
“Our biggest financiers are the rank and file members of the coalition who can contribute as little as Sh1,000 towards the campaign. We want to ensure that our campaigns are people driven,” said Mudavadi.
“We want to ensure that our reach goes all the way to every household in Kenya,” he added.