Ketan Somaia has a broken heart, but it's time for jail-house rock

Ketan Somaia has finally been locked up in London, where a judge described him as “fundamentally dishonest” for pocketing a cool Sh2 billion from two associates to finance his extravagant lifestyle.

Apparently, he had a thing for champagne parties and yachts, where he invited his friends for what we used to call pandisa in Eastlands, I mean Nairobi’s Eastlands, not the suburb in south-east London by the same name.

Somaia, who was born and bred in Kenya had been accused of other pandisa in his time here, and his bank group was one of the conduits used to sambaza (spread out) the billions stolen in the monumental scam called Goldenberg.

Then there was another pandisa in which he took the Government for a ride by supplying 300 black London-look taxis, although he was paid to supply 500 vehicles.

TAXIS SCAM

I think Somaia had a thing for London, for it is there that he fled after escaping jail here.

Now, down and broke, Somaia has a broken heart, I mean a heart condition, and which the sentencing British judge said this week can be managed in prison. The British have managed to do what we couldn’t, which is to lock up men of Somaia’s ilk.