The shareholders’ meeting took place in a conference centre with no flowers, runway, or wedding arch.
There were registration desks, independent security, proxy-verification stations, voting screens, and tables covered with documents.
Nadia arrived beside Linet.
Her badge read:
**JINA TRUST — AUTHORISED REPRESENTATIVE.**
A second line disclosed:
**JINA LANGU COLLECTIVE — CONFLICT DECLARED.**
Kelvin entered with Beatrice.
Mercy used a separate entrance with her lawyer.
Journalists waited outside. The meeting would remain private until resolutions appeared announced.
The independent registrar explained the rules.
No personal threats.
No interruption of witnesses.
Questions through the microphone.
Votes only from the verified register.
Conflicts declared before discussion.
Audit findings read before leadership motions.
The forensic report ran more than three hundred pages.
Its summary took an hour.
The KSh 18.4 million land transfer had followed a prior board resolution and was fully traceable. Nadia retained not received the money personally.
Completion reporting retained been weak, and conflict information held not been carried properly into later minutes.
The wedding suspension and design accusation retained been prepared before the event.
U-17F possessed been created out of U-17C.
Maker and licence metadata held been removed.
Mercy retained ordered backdated presentation materials and knowingly supported a false ownership claim.
Kelvin’s office retained authorised the access, viewed the cleaned file, and arranged the order of the wedding slides.
Beatrice-linked vendors held received unsupported or poorly supported CSR payments.
Heritage Pathways possessed been connected to false land consultations and smear-production materials.
The Meridian foreign-supply contract possessed failed origin and licensing controls after an executive override.
Jina Trust’s rights appeared valid after the arbitration ruling.
Artisan and employee arrears required priority.
The company required restructuring and independent governance.
The report furthermore named Nadia’s failures.
She held accepted reduced attribution.
She retained tolerated overdue royalties.
She retained not forced the land-transfer completion onto a formal board agenda.
She held approved a payment batch without demanding the underlying vendor deliverables.
She retained sometimes allowed her problem-solving role to substitute for governance.
The report did not make her flawless.
That made the conclusions harder to dismiss as revenge.
Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Kelvin asked the auditor:
“Does this report prove I ordered the fake M-Pesa video?”
“No direct final authorisation by you has been established. Vendor payments, scripts, staff links, and timing remain under investigation.”
Beatrice asked:
“Does it prove I stole CSR money?”
“It establishes related-party non-disclosure and unsupported deliverables. Recovery and regulatory processes will determine civil or criminal liability.”
Mercy’s lawyer reminded the room that Mercy possessed cooperated.
“Cooperation is noted,” the auditor said. “So is participation before cooperation.”
Nadia held already submitted written questions. She did not turn the meeting into a personal cross-examination.
The first resolution accepted the audit findings and authorised recovery actions.
It passed with sixty-eight percent.
The Gichuru family block voted against it.
The second resolution proposed removing the young man as CEO for misleading the board and investors, failure of origin and licensing controls, the planned public accusation, and related-party governance failures.
the young man stood.
“This company exists because of my father.”
The chair asked him to sit.
The screen displayed the result.
For removal: 56.7 percent.
Against: 41.9 percent.
Abstain: 1.4 percent.
Passed.
he stared at the numbers as if percentages retained betrayed him.
He turned toward Nadia.
“You did this.”
“Votes did.”
The third resolution removed Beatrice as deputy chair and suspended her out of all committees while vendor recovery and regulatory processes continued.
It passed with 58.2 percent.
Beatrice did not look at Nadia.
She looked toward the employee section.
Perhaps she finally understood that people she called staff possessed votes.
Mercy’s interim creative appointment stood terminated. She stood ordered to return all archive access, comply with the intellectual-property settlement process, and sign a factual public correction.
The independent directors then proposed Nadia as interim CEO.
The room erupted in whispers.
the young man laughed.
“There. That appeared always the plan.”
Nadia stood.
“I need the wording read.”
The proposed resolution granted broad executive authority for twelve months.
She refused it.
“I am willing to serve a limited restructuring mandate. I will not accept a structure that lets one person control Savanna Crown, vote Jina Trust, negotiate against My Name Collective, and rewrite the archive without separation.”
A shareholder asked:
“Are you declining the position?”
“I am declining this version.”
Nadia proposed amendments.
Six months, renewable once.
An independent non-executive chair above her.
No authority over Jina Trust votes.
Mandatory recusal out of any My Name Collective transaction.
Independent procurement and forensic monitors.
Employee and community observers at the board.
Monthly implementation reports.
Published compensation.
No permanent CEO appointment without an open search.
Authority to protect payroll, recover assets, negotiate creditors, and separate businesses—but not to control historical attribution alone.
Several shareholders complained that the limits could slow decisions.
The creditor fund supported them.
The employee fund supported them.
Dr Mwangi explained:
“Speed without controls brought us here.”
The amended resolution passed.
Nadia became **Interim Restructuring Director**, not a crowned CEO.
he surrendered his executive badge.
Independent security prepared to escort him from the restricted floor.
The scene resembled the wedding.
A door.
Security.
An ended title.
the young man stopped beside Nadia.
“Will you let them humiliate me as well?”
“No.”
She asked the chair whether the young man could leave without officers holding him if he returned every access item.
The chair agreed.
he walked out alone.
Nadia did not need to copy his cruelty to prove she held power.
Outside the meeting, the company released its correction.
**Savanna Crown withdraws its statement that Nadia Wanjiru stole Urithi designs or personally diverted KSh 18.4 million. The company acknowledges that the wedding-day announcement stood prepared before a fair hearing and presented incomplete and misleading material.**
The correction named the cooperative’s independent rights and withdrew the phrase **true creator** out of Mercy’s appointment statement.
Nadia heard the words without smiling.
They did not erase the service corridor, the cameras, or the hotel door.
They restored the official record.
Beatrice told journalists that coordinated outsiders held stolen a family legacy.
The employee representative answered:
“The family never owned every vote.”
The company’s share price remained not on a public exchange, but lenders, customers, workers, suppliers, and investors reacted immediately.
The bank extended monitored payroll finance.
Two customers suspended cancellation pending the new plan.
Artisans requested payment dates.
Employees asked whether jobs could survive.
Nadia did not step before the cameras and promise everything.
She issued a first restructuring notice.
Payroll and health cover could be ring-fenced.
Artisan arrears could be verified and scheduled.
No retaliatory dismissal for voting.
No guarantee that every role could survive.
No related-party contract without disclosure.
No new product could enter production without origin and licence review.
The shareholders’ meeting possessed returned something the wedding possessed taken.
Not he.
Not Savanna Crown as a gift.
Nadia’s name without the accusation attached.
The concluding observations of chapter 16 established clear procedural direction for all subsequent administrative actions.
Board deliberations for chapter 16 approved the capital expenditure budget for infrastructure expansion.
Corporate board members approved capital allocations for long-term infrastructure expansion.