Children coming from wealthy families are usually believed to be privileged as they never lack anything or struggle with life.
People work hard to build empires so that they can have status in society and also their children to have a good future, such that they don’t have to be employed to survive but instead, they can just secure jobs in their family businesses.
This made people develop the notion that rich kids are spoiled and they know nothing about being independent. However a number of Kenyan rich kids have tried to break the norm and instead of relying on family business and wealth, they have established their own businesses.
Here is a list of billionaires’ children who did not want to rely on their parents fortune.
Ngina Kenyatta.
Ngina is the daughter of president Uhuru Kenyatta and Mama Margret Kenyatta. The Kenyatta family is known to be filthily wealthy with president Kenyatta’s net worth estimated to be $70 billion, ranging from various properties to thousands of acres of lands.
Despite her family swimming in billions, Ngina decided to have something of her own. She owns the Green Experience Restaurant that is based in Kiambu.
Anerlisa Muigai
Anerlisa is popularly referred to as the Keroche heiress . She is the eldest daughter to Tabitha Karanja, CEO of the Keroche, which is one of the most successful brewing companies in the country.
Despite such a fortune that would have served as her lifetime source of income, Anerlisa founded her own company that is known as Nero Company limited which is based in Nairobi.
The company that has been running for almost 11 years deals with producing executive beverages.
Robert Kirubi.
Robert is the son of the late billionaire Chris Kirubi, who founded Centum investments. Robert is working for the DHL company in Europe. His father in the past revealed that he receives a good pay such that he refused to work for him by heading the multi-billion family empire.
Rita Field-Marsham.
The daughter of the late powerful minister Nicholas Biwott rejected her share of her father’s property that had been left for her.
In his will, Biwott had directed that all his wealth be divided equally among all his 7 children but Rita said that it should be divided among her six siblings without giving any reasons for her decision.
Rita is practicing her law career and as well runs two charity organizations namely Knowledge Empowering Youth (KEY) and Charles Field-Marsham Foundation. She is based in Canada.
Her mother, Johanna from the Netherlands, married Biwott in 1965.
James Kimoi Moi
He is the son of Baringo senator Gideon Moi and grandson to Kenya’s second president the late Daniel Moi.
The Moi family is believed to be the second richest in Kenya’s political field. Despite all the wealth, Kimoi decided to venture into potato farming. Currently he is the Director of Agrico East Africa Company
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