Tabitha fights to keep empire as Keroche hit with Sh9b tax bill

Keroche Breweries CEO Tabitha Karanja. [Tabitha Otwori]

The iron lady who took on East Africa’s largest and oldest brewer is on the verge of closing shop over a Sh9.1 billion tax bill.

Unless an appeal saves her, Tabitha Karanja is staring at financial ruin, bringing to a close a business she has painstakingly built over the last two decades.