Fresh Details Emerge as Makindu Tycoon Killed in Accident Was a Witness in Ksh 180 Million Scandal Linked to President Ruto
Stephen Ngei, a businessman from Makueni and the founder of Makindu Motors Limited, dies in an accident involving him and his wife at Masimba, along Mombasa-Nairobi Highway.
According to police reports, the husband and wife died instantly after their pick-up truck got into a head-on collision with a truck with Southern Sudan plates.
The two were travelling to Nairobi late Saturday evening, when the accident happened.
The couple’s bodies have been moved to Montezuma Monalisa Funeral Home in Machakos County for preservation.
The businessman has exposed a fake laptops contract worth Sh180 million that purportedly took place in Harambee House Annex, the office of then deputy president, William Ruto.
In court documents, he claimed that he had supplied laptops worth Sh180 million to people claiming to be top government officials.
This is a case that he had been fighting without justice for eight years until his death.
Various politicians and businessmen paid tributes to the man.
Among them was the Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka, Kibwezi West Member of Parliament Mwengi Mutuse among others.
