Big win for estranged Simba Corp billionaire’s heir at last

Simba Corp board chairman Alnashir Popat at a shareholders briefing in Nairobi. January 2021. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

A father’s love is all Alnashir Popat ever wanted, but he never got it while the senior Popat was alive.

But last week, Alnashir finally felt a semblance of the fatherly love he yearned for, courtesy of the courts in a precedent-setting ruling. It was a long coming.