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The Kenyatta family lineage
Kenya's first President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta married four wives, Grace Wahu, Edna Clarke, Grace Wanjiku and Mama Ngina. His children included President Uhuru Kenyatta, by his fourth and youngest wife, Ngina. Little is known about Kenyatta's other wives and children. His eldest son Peter Muigai Kenyatta by first wife Grace Wahu was born in 1920 and died in October 1979, barely a year after his father's demise on August 22, 1978.
Peter Muigai Kenyatta was a prominent businessman in his own right and followed his father's footsteps into politics, getting elected the MP for Juja, a constituency neighbouring that of his father's Gatundu constituency. His father subsequently appointed him Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs.
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Muigai featured conspicuously in his father's State funeral in 1978, accompanying the ceremonial gun carriage that transported the body to
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Pandora Papers: Uhuru Kenyatta family's secret assets exposed by leak
BBC News
The Pandora Papers - 12 million files - is the biggest such leak in history.
Mr Kenyatta and six members of his family have been linked to 13 offshore companies.
He said he would "respond comprehensively" to the leak once he returned from a state visit abroad.
However, he added that the investigation would "go a long way in enhancing the financial transparency and openness that we require in Kenya and around the globe".
The Kenyattas' offshore investments, including a company with stocks and bonds worth $30m (£22m), were discovered among hundreds of thousands of pages of administrative paperwork from the archives of 14 law firms and service providers in Panama and the British Virgin Islands (BVI) and other tax havens.
The secret assets were uncovered by an investigation, published earlier on Sunday, by
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Uhuru Kenyatta
President of Kenya from April 2013 to September 2022
For other uses, see Uhuru (disambiguation).
Uhuru Muigai KenyattaCGH ( born 26 October 1961) is a Kenyan politician who served as the fourth president of Kenya from 2013 to 2022.[1][2] The son of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first president,[3] he previously served as Deputy Prime Minister from 2008 to 2013.
Daniel Arap Moi had picked Kenyatta as his preferred successor. However, he was defeated by the then opposition leader Mwai Kibaki in the 2002 election, and Kibaki was subsequently sworn in as the President.[4] Kenyatta served as the member of parliament (MP) for Gatundu South from 2002 to 2013 and also as Deputy Prime Minister to Raila Odinga from 2008 to 2013.[citation needed] Currently he is a member and the party leader of the Jubilee Party of Kenya, whose popularity has since dwindled. Kenyatta was previously a member of the Kenya Africa National Union