Chris Kirubi steps out as Kenya’s top corporate fixer

In the hallowed boardrooms of Kenya’s top corporations and in the corridors of political power and influence, the one name that has popped up more than any other in the past year, especially when the subject is a multi-billion-shilling public or private sector deal, is Chris Kirubi.

The billionaire entrepreneur appears to have rediscovered his deal-making ways to become Kenya’s most powerful corporate personality in President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government.