What is not being said is that once the dad passed on, his businesses no longer enjoyed political patronage and the benefits of stolen money. The basics had to set in at some point.
Politicians have a way of offsetting business losses by directing govt procurement their way and injecting illegal funds gotten from corruption. So biashara inaweza kuwa inaingiza losses ama employees wanaiba kuiba but haionekani coz of the owners shenanigans. Why do you think most politicians and govt officials go broke immediately they loose influence.