1. Humphrey Kariuki Ndegwa was born on August 28, 1957, has 10 siblings (six brothers and four sisters) and grew up in a regular rural setting in Nyeri County.

2. Humphrey is married to Stella Nasike and very little is known about her and what she does as well as their children together and the kind of lifestyle they lead.

3. The Forbes magazine in 2017 estimated Humphrey Kariuki’s net worth to be in the region of $70 million, an equivalent of Sh8.4 billion).

4. The Kenyan billionaire launched his career in entrepreneurship in Kenya in the early 1980s after working briefly with the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK).

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5. Among his early ventures are the famed Green Corner restaurant (quoted in former US President Barack Obama's list of most visited sites in Nairobi), Twigs Restaurant and Cactus Bar.

6. Humphrey owns the prestigious 5-Star Fairmont Mt Kenya Safari Club in Nyeri County, which has over the years hosted top government meetings and conferences as well as local and foreign celebrities and hosted President Ruto's inaugural cabinet retreat from January 5, 2023, and also owns the neighboring Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy and Animal Orphanage.

7. He also owns The Hub Karen Mall, a premier shopping mall located in the plush Karen suburbs of Nairobi, Kenya. The mall built at a cost of Sh5 billion, was opened on February 4, 2016 and comprises 85 stores and gets up to 55,000 weekly visitors.

8. He is the founder and Executive Patron of Janus Continental Group, a Kenyan company with interests in energy, real estate, hospitality and conservation sectors in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, and Mozambique.

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9. In September 2018, his Dalbit Petroleum, which supplies aviation, manufacturing, mining, transport and humanitarian sectors across Africa, won a Sh796 million tender to fuel UN planes in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

10. An article appearing in the Forbes magazine links him to Great Lakes Africa Energy, a UK-based firm that develops and operates power projects in Southern Africa region.

11. All his businesses combined are estimated to employ more than 3,000 people, who include Kenyans and expatriates.

12. DCI detectives arrested the reclusive and elusive billionaire on August 19, 2019 on claims of Sh41 billion tax evasion through his brewer Africa Spirits Limited (ASL).

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13. In December 2022, a Nairobi court acquitted him in a case in which he was charged with being in possession of 80 drums of un-customed ethanol worth Sh7.4 million.

14. He is said to be among wealthy Mt Kenya businessmen who oiled Ruto’s campaign ahead of the August 9, 2022 election against President Uhuru Ruto’s wishes.

15. The 66-year-old was appointed a member of the National Investment Council for three years by President William Ruto after being sworn in on September 13.