Hasmukh Patel, known to many residents of Mombasa simply as Hasu, is one of the Coastal city’s biggest industrialists and philanthropists. One of his companies, Mombasa Cement, is currently locked in a raging feud with the Mombasa county government, led by Governor Abdulswamad Sharrif Nassir. Mombasa Cement carted away sculptures previously erected at city roundabouts, to be taken to nearby Kilifi county, in what was widely perceived as retaliation for the county’s move to oversee Patel’s donations at various public hospitals in the county. Patel has been responsible for clearing medical bills worth millions of shillings and helping equip county hospitals. It will be unfair if I do not recognise him for the work that he has done for us,” noted former Mombasa Governor Ali Hassan Joho at one function.

Source: Daily Nation May 25, 2023 21:20 UTC