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Curtain falls on Ridgeways Mall mogul Stanley Githunguri
Former Kiambaa MP Stanley Githunguri and Lillian Towers in Nairobi. In his final years, Mr Githunguri had been taken to court by his eldest son, Joseph Munga, over the running of properties — a saga that unveiled the sad end of the tycoon.
In the business world, Stanley Munga Githunguri, the former banker who built Nairobi’s iconic Lilian Towers, could open doors when he reigned. By the time he died this week, the former Kiambaa MP had all but been forgotten.
Mr Githunguri, who died on Tuesday after a long struggle with dementia and diabetes, was a master investor. Along Kiambu Road, he had built Ridgeways Mall and had other real estate properties in Kiambu and Nairobi thanks to his dalliance with old money — when he was the executive chairman of the National Bank of Kenya in the 1970s.
