Wealthy Kenyans should proudly invest at home

Kenyan Currency in notes [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

The investigation that has exposed scores of world leaders who have allegedly stashed huge amounts of money in offshore structures and trusts in tax havens once again underscores the pivotal role journalists and journalism play.

The investigation, involving 600 journalists from 150 media outlets in 117 countries, based on more than 11.9 million documents leaked from 14 offshore financial services firms, names prominent people said to have put their money in tax havens such as Seychelles, British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong and Belize.