Controversial businessman Jacob Juma Shot Dead in Nairobi Kenya

File photo: Jacob Juma.

KENYA: Nairobi controversial businessman Jacob Juma is dead. Juma was shot dead by unknown people while driving past Lenana School Thursday night.

Nairobi CID boss Ireri Kamwende said the businessman was driving from his bar at around 9.30pm when he was shot by gunmen who escaped on a motorbike.

Jacob Juma was driving home from a bar to his home in an upmarket suburb on Thursday night when unknown gunmen attacked his car.

Jacob Juma was driving home from a bar to his home in an upmarket suburb on Thursday night when unknown gunmen attacked his car.

Mr Juma, who had mining interests, had been involved in several high-profile legal cases against the government over failed business deals.

Police say nothing was stolen from the businessman, as two of his mobiles were found in his car along with some cash.

Jacob Juma had sued a state corporation, seeking about $5m (£3.4m) in compensation for a breach of contract to supply 40,000 tonnes of maize in 2004.

He had also taken the government to court in 2015 for revoking his company's mining licence and allegedly declining to pay a bribe demanded by Former Mining Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala.

However, Balala termed the allegations as malicious.

Cortec Mining Kenya had claimed it had identified mineral deposits worth billions of dollars in the coastal county of Kwale.

Jacob Juma had also alleged Jubilee used over Sh250 billion of Eurobond money to refund all campaign cash allegedly used in the 2013 general election.