Raphael Tuju is neither an architect nor an engineer. Ironically, although the founder of Ace Communications attended the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, where he studied for a master’s degree in Mass Communication, he has spectacularly failed at selling his side of the story about his $9.3 million (about Sh943.9 million at the time he borrowed it) debt debacle to the masses.
Instead, he was reduced to pitiable whimpering on the dilapidated sofa sets of Karen Police Station, his belly button heaving as television cameras rolled.
At that point in time, as on the day his 20-acre prime property on Tree Lane, Karen, and the smaller one on Mwitu Road, also in Karen, were yanked from his control, Tuju cut a forlorn figure, trying every which way to win public sympathy through dramatizing his arrest, admission to hospitals for undisclosed ailments, and at his lowest point, abducting himself and creating the impression that the University of Nairobi students had gone on the rampage to protest his “mysterious disappearance”.
It took the intervention of former Law Society of Kenya chairman Nelson Havi to dispel the myth after he called the student leadership who then clarified that they were protesting a water shortage at the main campus. Mr Havi then posted the clarification on his Facebook page, ending speculation that had caught the Standard newspaper flatfooted after it splashed the alleged abduction.
Read the full story in the April 2026 issue of the Nairobi Law Magazine, available here: https://epaper.nairobilawmonthly.com
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