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Sam Mburu and DP William Ruto<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n And last Saturday, dowry was negotiated in a ceremony also attended by Deputy President William Ruto in Laikipia.<\/p>\n But who is this man Sam Mburu alias Kiongozi?<\/p>\n Sam Mburu has been a close ally of Deputy President William Ruto and Senator Kihika for a long time.<\/p>\n Ahead of the 2017 election, Senator Kihika’s campaigns were largely sponsored by the wealthy businessman.<\/p>\n Prior to the 2017 General Elections, Ms Kihika, the daughter of the late veteran Nakuru politician Dickson Kihika Kimani, conducted one of the high profile and well-oiled campaigns crisscrossing the county in choppers.<\/p>\n Her campaigns were flashy and showy, with state of the art Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) and at times helicopters, which wowed many, including her opponents.<\/p>\n The little-known Mburu is described as a wealthy, humble, down to earth and generous man, who generously contributes to harambees.<\/p>\n Mr Mburu is also known as a shrewd businessman with strong connections locally and internationally.<\/p>\n He runs a clearing and forwarding company in Mombasa – Landmark Freight Services, which has two branches in China and rakes in profits estimated at Sh10 million monthly.<\/p>\n Mburu also owns multimillion properties in various towns including apartments in Nakuru, Nairobi, Kajiado, Mombasa as well as a string of high-end luxury cars.<\/p>\n The businessman started humbly as a soft-drinks distributor in Nakuru Town’s Shabaab area.<\/p>\n In 2013, Mburu took an active role in the United Republican Party (URP) campaigns.<\/p>\n The soft-spoken Mburu hails from Solai in Nakuru County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sam Mburu (alias Kiongozi Kiswahili word for leader). This is the man who won Senator Susan Kihika’s heart. And last Saturday, dowry was negotiated in a ceremony also attended by Deputy President William Ruto in Laikipia. But who is this man Sam Mburu alias Kiongozi? Sam Mburu has been a close ally of Deputy President […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[84,85],"class_list":["post-29830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nakuru-people","tag-nakuru-senator-susan-kihika","tag-sam-mburu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}