Mary M'Mukindia

Life

Mary Kimotho M'Mukindia was born in the 1950s. She went to school in Kenya and the United Kingdom. She graduated from the University of Nairobi. She entered the oil and gas industry. She was awarded the Moran of the Burning Spear in 2007.

M'Mukindia was a former CEO of Kenya's National Oil Corporation.

She was a confidante of the businessman and politician Njenga Karume. Before he died from cancer in 2013 he had formed the Njenga Karume Foundation which was designed to manage his inheritance. A board of trustees was chosen to manage these interests and it was led by M'Mukinda]].

In 2013 Martha Karua, a former justice minister, ran unsuccessfully to be President of Kenya and M'Mukindia ran her campaign. In December 2015 Karua admitted to receiving a multimillion-pound "donation" to her presidential campaign costs from British American Tobacco. Karua said that she thought that the contribution by Paul Hopkins, a BAT employee, was a personal donation. The money was paid according to Karua via M'Mukindia. It was alleged that the money was given in return for details of the technology that Kenya was going to use to identify illegal tobacco smuggling. Meanwhile, M'Mukindia has become a board member of the Kenya Revenue Authority.