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Robert Maxwell: Man who almost built a 60-storey skyscraper in the middle of Uhuru Park

Robert Maxwell [Photo: Courtesy]

Had this Briton had his way, there would be no Uhuru Park in Nairobi. Robert Maxwell, the mercurial publishing tycoon was shipped to Kenya to shore up fortunes of state-owned Kenya Times newspaper in 1988.

By the time the six-footer was murdered and exposed as a “fat fraudster” and “extortionist spy” three years later, everyone ‘was crying in the toilet.’   

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