Twiga Foods Limited, the main company, is in administration. It is now registered as Templar Field Limited, and Mohamed A. Mohamed of Maawiy Financial Advisory Services has been appointed its administrator by the board of directors, effective September 2026. The appointment is set out in a release the firm issued in Nairobi on 15th September.
That makes two Twiga companies in administration within a month, both under the same administrator, both put there by their own directors. On 17 August GT Flow Limited, registered until recently as Twiga Foods One Limited, went first. We covered that appointment on 14 September after reading Gazette Notice No. 14595 in the Kenya Gazette of 11th September.
Twiga Foods started in Nairobi in 2014. It bought produce from farmers, moved it through its own warehouses and lorries, and sold it to the small shops and market stalls that buy in small quantities, with orders placed through an app. Investors put in $185.4 million in disclosed funding over the company’s life, roughly KES 24 billion at Tuesday’s rate of KES 129.44 to the dollar. Peter Njonjo resigned as chief executive in December 2023. More than 600 jobs went between 2023 and 2025, and the company gave up its Tatu City distribution hub in June 2025.
The boards appointed him, not the creditors
Last week’s coverage, ours aside, described the GT Flow administration as creditors moving in to recover debts. The gazette notice didn’t say that. Neither does the administrator’s own release, which puts the GT Flow appointment at 17 August, “also by the Board of Directors, pursuant to section 541(2) of the Insolvency Act (Cap. 53)”. That “also” refers back to Templar Field, which the release has just described the same way. Section 541(2) is the directors’ limb of the out-of-court route. The board hands the company over itself, with no creditor application and no court order.
The appointment follows his taking the same role at GT Flow Limited (formerly
Administration is not liquidation. An administrator takes over a company that cannot pay its debts and tries to keep it trading, or failing that to get creditors more than a winding-up would. The release puts the objective in those terms: a better outcome for creditors than would otherwise be likely if the companies were wound up. A moratorium freezes enforcement against both companies while Mohamed works, and administration ends automatically after 12 months unless a court extends it.
“We will continue to engage with stakeholders to achieve the best possible outcome for all creditors,” Mohamed said in the release.
What creditors need to do, and by when
Anyone owed money by either company has 30 days from the notice to send full particulars of the claim, with supporting documentation, to the administrator. For GT Flow the clock started with the gazette publication on 11 September, so claims close on 11 October. The release is dated 15 September, which puts the Templar Field deadline at 15 October. The release does not give a day in September for the Templar Field appointment, only the month, and the exact date will matter to anyone calculating the moratorium.
Nothing has been gazetted for Templar Field yet. We downloaded both Kenya Gazette issues published on 11 September and searched them; neither contains the name. No gazette has been published since. The GT Flow notice named Mohamed but not his firm, so the release is the first document to put Maawiy Financial Advisory Services on the file. It is one of a small number of licensed insolvency practitioners in Kenya, and Mohamed is also the liquidator of the Nairobi training startup Zydii Limited, appointed by its creditors on 30 June 2026.
Both companies have dropped the Twiga name
When we wrote about GT Flow we couldn’t establish whether Twiga Foods Limited still existed as a separate company. It does. It has been renamed, and it is in administration. In April 2025 a whistleblower sent us internal slides for a plan called Project Easter, which set out a new entity taking the Twiga brand, the customer database and the core functions under licence while the old shell was left behind. We published the slides at the time and Twiga denied that any of it was happening. The renames free the Twiga Foods name for another company to take.
The other gaps from last week are all still open. Nobody has published what either company owes or to whom. The release does not say whether Jumra, Sojpar and Raisons, the three FMCG distributors Twiga bought into in 2025, are caught up in the administration, and it does not mention Twiga Tatu SEZ Limited, the company holding the Tatu City hub, which a creditor petitioned to liquidate in January 2026.
The claims window for GT Flow closes on 11 October and the Templar Field window a few days after that, and a gazette notice for Templar Field should turn up in one of the coming Friday issues. After that the administrator has to put a proposal to creditors, and that document is where the numbers finally have to be written down.
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