Kenyan businesswoman Mary Wambui sues Google to scrub news articles about her $16.9 million tax fraud case from search results after the charges were dropped in 2023

Billionaires Africa | 03.05.2026 04:00
Mary Wambui Mungai, one of Kenya's most prominent government procurement tycoons and a financier of President William Ruto's political campaigns, has sued Google in the High Court seeking to force the technology company to remove news articles about her Sh2.2 billion ($16.9 million) tax evasion case from its search results, in what appears to be one of the first major "right to be forgotten" cases filed in Kenya.