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Uchumi Supermarket runs out of nine lives, faces financial crunch

Uchumi Supermarket - Capital Centre, Nairobi on Monday, August 28, 2017. [Photo: David Njaaga, Standard]

The epic tale of the sinking Titanic is mystified by its captain, Edward Smith who is romanticised as having stayed put on the bridge as the behemoth sank to the bottom of the sea.

But as Uchumi Supermarkets sinks to the bottom of the sea, its former boss Julius Kipng’etich jumped ship abandoning his blueprint for its recovery.

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