How Kiambu tycoon lived with wives under one roof

The late Kiambu billionaire John Kinuthia Makum. [Fidalis Kabunyi/Standard]

John Kinuthia Makumi alias Mr Money, who died on December 5 aged 89, was a self-made billionaire who lived the America’s version of the ‘Kenyan Dream’.

At the age of 16, Makumi quit school and plunged into business full-time, selling chicken, much to the amusement of his schoolmates.