The way the programme is presented is misleading...
TRUE STORY:
This mzee had a son with the first wife. Somewhere along the way they divorced officially - even went to high court for marriage dissolution. He re-married, but continued paying up-keep for first wife and son.
He got two sons with second wife... they grew up to become quite responsible. One became a doctor, the other joined the father's business - mainly real-estate development.
Unfortunately, the son from the first wife turned out to be a social wreck... drunk all school fees and bankrupt two biasharas that the father had started for him.
The father's business was however doing quite well, with several residential properties and a few commercial buildings in their town.
Then the father started developing a large modern shopping mall in the town and a few months after it was completed, he fell seriously ill. About a year later he passed away.
As usual, the circus began: the first wife and her son popped out "of the woodwork" and laid claim on the old man's property... they even managed to stop his burial..."until they are fully recognised as legitmate heirs to the property"
After several closed door family meetings, it became clear that the first wife+son were only interested in a share of the new shopping mall.
The second wife's son [the one who'd been running the business] called his mother and sibling aside and suggested that they can give up the whole shopping mall in order to appease the first family.
It took some convincing, but they eventually agreed to the idea. When the first family heard that they would get the shopping mall, they quickly agreed to the conditions attached; that they they shall not claim anything else from the mzee's estate. The deal was signed and witnessed by respective lawyers.
When the first wife+son started running the shopping mall, they were shocked to find that it had been built with a loan from KCB and that the total rent collected was not enough to cover the repayment... it was about 250k short of the 750k required monthly!
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Moral of the story? When you see a person with a big business empire, it is not enough to conclude that he is wealthy... it could all be easily tied up in loans, making his NET WORTH a tiny fraction of what you see...
So, as Julie tells us who owns which property, she could as well tell us what these people owe; that way we can know how wealthy they truly are....
Nothing is real unless it can be named; nothing has value unless it can be sold; money is worthless unless you spend it.