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6 Ordinary Kenyans Who Accidentally Made Millions

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Last updated: 2023/10/25 at 6:07 PM
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These Kenyans were just lucky in 2017, just to wake up and discover you are rich within a single night is not easy, but for the 5 below, they just woke up and went back to bed with millions in their hands

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1.100 Bob wedding couple2.Wall of china girl3.Jackpot winner4.Thika Bank Heist5.KRA Hacker6.Gordon Ogada

1.100 Bob wedding couple

They simply did a wedding worth 100 bob, but Wanja and Muhonja went on to become rich and earn a wedding worth 3 million shillings after they became viral.

The two now own a piece of land , a good house and a nice mini supermarket with one kid one year after their 100 bob famous engagement

2.Wall of china girl

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Sevelyb Gat made herself to the great wall of China through a photoshop that failed terribly, it made her famous and won a free tour to China, and the great wall of China too. Her travel allowaces and expenditures made it into millions of shillings

3.Jackpot winner

Samwel Abisai won a whooping 221 million shillings from the Jackpot, he had never thought so. It was one of its kind for him. A varsity graduate with notheing, ended up with almost a half a billion shillings

4.Thika Bank Heist

A group of thieves made away with more than 50 million shillings from Thika KCB Branch, after digging a hole from a nearby shop to the bank’s safe house.

It was rather a genius century way.

5.KRA Hacker

Alex, a school boy graduate from the University of Nairobi, broke into the KRA systems and took over 4 billion shillings, he became rich of course.

A Nairobi court reject IT expert Alex Mutuku's plea to reduce the Sh700,000 bail imposed on him for stealing KRA's more than Sh3.9 billion pic.twitter.com/Q2LfTdCNxz

— Thika Town Today – 3T (@ThikaTowntoday) May 5, 2017

He was a serial hacker as it was later discovered. Led a luxury life and pruned life from the shoot. Alex never got a chance to enjoy his stolen fortunes before he was arraigned in court.

But some Kenyans celebrated him as the most genius thief in Kenya

 

6.Gordon Ogada

Kenya’s top betting firm unveiled the lucky Kenyan who won more than 230 million setting a record from the previous one of 221 million shillings.

The young lad aged 22 years old was picked by his fellow millionaire Samwel Abisai whose record of 221 million had been snatched from him one year later.

Hongera, bwana Gordon Paul Ogada! #230Milli pic.twitter.com/2pNxsN9wCi

— SportPesa Kenya (@SportPesa) February 7, 2018

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