Joshua Kulei, the prison warder who turned Kenyan billionaire

Joshua Kulei, the prison warder who turned Kenyan billionaire

In 1978, a young man from the Rift Valley was doing what his job required. He was supervising prisoners working on a compound. He was a warder, low-paid and largely anonymous, one of thousands of civil servants whose names would never appear in any newspaper. Then Daniel arap Moi noticed him.That encounter set in motion one of the most remarkable and contested accumulations of private wealth in Kenya's post-independence history. The young warder…