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Meet Joshua Chepkwony, the silent billionaire behind Faiba network.

Joshua Chepwony is the founder of Kass Media group which owns Fass Fm and Kass Tv, Jamii millings and Jamii telecom operating under the brand Faiba.

Kass media group was founded in 2005 . A report by Ezekiel Mutua in 2010 accused Kass fm which broadcast in Kalenjin, of covering the 2007 general elections unprofessionally which fueled post election violence https://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/handle/11295/3404?show=full

Joshua Chepkwony is fondly referred to as Ck Joshua, has been featured in many events regarding the telecommunication industry.

Joshua Chepkwony during the launch of Faiba (photo courtesy)

His company Jamii telecom was instrumental in the installation of undersea fiber optic cable with 5% ownership in teams cable system read; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEAMS_(cable_system)#Ownership.

He has also been featured in the list of helicopter owners in Kenya, According to the standard he is the owner of a Eurocopter helicopter with the registration number 5Y-HJK.

Jamii Telecom paid 5 billion Kenya shilling to be issued with operating license in 2017 where the chairman , Joshua Chepkwony said that it was a way of uprooting entrenched monopoly which had been created by Telkom , Safaricom and Airtel. watch https://youtu.be/p8ktbUZYshc

Joshua Chepkwony alongside the helicopter model he allegedly owns(photo courtesy)

The Jamii millings factory, which process flour is located in Uasin Gishu county and the businessman invested 1 billion shillings to build the factory.

The businessman is also keen on politics, in 2017, he attended the swearing in of three rift valley governors; Jackson Mandago (Uasin Gishu), Stephen Sang (Nandi) and the late Joyce Laboso who was the governor of Bomet county. Businessman's speech during governor Mandago https://youtu.be/YCMKWTKZ

Joshua Chepkwony issuing his speech during Bob Collymore farewell. (photo courtesy) watch speech; https://youtu.be/HlPksDLoGj8

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