Growing up, Jaswant Singh Rai—the beleaguered tycoon that was reportedly the target of President William Ruto’s tongue-lashing — was the favourite son of Tarlochan Singh Rai.
Tarlochan, the patriarch of the Rai family, cut his teeth in entrepreneurship and the art of deal-making in the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire, by buying coffee and tea estates from Belgians who were leaving the central African nation.
