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Elder Lister
Sisi watu wa Kayole really doubt that this leafy area is in our city..............
Rest well, Mr President.
Kibaki Farewell
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Elder Lister
Nalala FK Leo, si mtapitia. It's fully booked btw, willing to share my room
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room number please
When Mwai Kibaki Rejected MD Job At East African Breweries
I told Kibaki to forget the KANU business and that I would take him the following day to Brian and soon he would be the managing director and then Chairman of EABL.
As told by the late Njenga Karume
I first heard of Mwai Kibaki from his many friends from Nyeri. At the time he was pursuing his studies at Makerere University and I was distributing beer for East African Breweries.
There was only a single bar that sold bottled beer to Africans and was run by Muchohi Gikonyo, a former Nairobi councilor. It was known as African Corner. I frequented this bar with my business partner, Charles Kigwe, an uncle of Mama Ngina Kenyatta.
Kibaki would frequent this bar when he was on holiday from Makerere. He felt comfortable there because there were many educated Africans. That is where our friendship started. Kibaki would come to my shop in Kiambu where I lived at the back.
Early Years
I became closer to Kibaki when he graduated from Makerere and was now a lecturer, earning a good salary. Since KANU was looking for an Executive Officer, Kibaki opted to quit his position and manage KANU. That time he was still a bachelor and had a one bed-roomed house in Nairobi West. I knew Lucy Kibaki teaching at Kambui Secondary School but she had not yet met Kibaki.
Those days, the only person who had a car was my business partner Charles Kigwe and he would give us a lift if we wanted to go somewhere. We would drop Kibaki in Nairobi West after a drinking session and go to Kiambu.
In KANU, Kibaki did not earn a salary. I remember one time when we dropped him at his place during the day and he said: “I don’t know what will happen at night because I don’t have money for my electricity bill.”
The bill was Ksh.6.50 cents and even that Kibaki couldn’t afford. Luckily, Kigwe decided to pay the electricity bill and that night we drank till late.
When Kibaki rejected MD job at East African Breweries
One day Brian Hobson, then Managing Director, East African Breweries, told me: “James, by the look of things, this country will gain independence soon and Africans will become very senior people yet our friend Kibaki has no job apart from this Executive Officer and they do not even pay him. I would like you to speak to him because I would like to give him a job at EABL. I know that we white people will not be here forever... When I look around at all the black people that I know, it is only Mwai who would be- come Managing Director of EABL.”
That was an extremely big job and I agreed to persuade Kibaki to accept Hobson’s offer. I took him for a drink at Kimangu Bar in River Road owned by (former Nairobi PC) Fred Waiganjo.
I kept this as a secret because I did not want other people to compete for the same position. I also knew that if Kibaki got the position he would be able to buy me beer. I told Kibaki to forget the Kanu business and that I would take him the following day to Brian and soon he would be the managing director and then Chairman of EABL. He just told me, thank you very much for your faith in me Mr Karume.
“Go back to Brian and relay this decision,” he told me.
The formation of Democratic Party
We were celebrating a Christmas party in Mombasa when Kibaki called a journalist and told her to go and announce his resignation from the Government. Moi was very angry and disappointed. He would have wanted to fire Kibaki.
Three days later in Parliament I consulted with John Keen and suggested we form our own party. Keen was categorical that Kibaki must be in it. We called Kibaki and he said, Tuanzeni... That evening we met for a drink in Jacaranda, and the next day at John Keen’s residence.
Family
I remember when Tony was about to be born. We drove to Kibaki’s house and Lucy was expectant. Kibaki held her hand and said: this week will not go by without you delivering. Two days later, Kibaki informed me that Tony had been born at Nairobi Hospital.
Lucy has been supportive of Kibaki all this time. They have a very good family.
Sourced: from Mwai Kibaki, 50 years of national service
I told Kibaki to forget the KANU business and that I would take him the following day to Brian and soon he would be the managing director and then Chairman of EABL.
As told by the late Njenga Karume
I first heard of Mwai Kibaki from his many friends from Nyeri. At the time he was pursuing his studies at Makerere University and I was distributing beer for East African Breweries.
There was only a single bar that sold bottled beer to Africans and was run by Muchohi Gikonyo, a former Nairobi councilor. It was known as African Corner. I frequented this bar with my business partner, Charles Kigwe, an uncle of Mama Ngina Kenyatta.
Kibaki would frequent this bar when he was on holiday from Makerere. He felt comfortable there because there were many educated Africans. That is where our friendship started. Kibaki would come to my shop in Kiambu where I lived at the back.
Early Years
I became closer to Kibaki when he graduated from Makerere and was now a lecturer, earning a good salary. Since KANU was looking for an Executive Officer, Kibaki opted to quit his position and manage KANU. That time he was still a bachelor and had a one bed-roomed house in Nairobi West. I knew Lucy Kibaki teaching at Kambui Secondary School but she had not yet met Kibaki.
Those days, the only person who had a car was my business partner Charles Kigwe and he would give us a lift if we wanted to go somewhere. We would drop Kibaki in Nairobi West after a drinking session and go to Kiambu.
In KANU, Kibaki did not earn a salary. I remember one time when we dropped him at his place during the day and he said: “I don’t know what will happen at night because I don’t have money for my electricity bill.”
The bill was Ksh.6.50 cents and even that Kibaki couldn’t afford. Luckily, Kigwe decided to pay the electricity bill and that night we drank till late.
When Kibaki rejected MD job at East African Breweries
One day Brian Hobson, then Managing Director, East African Breweries, told me: “James, by the look of things, this country will gain independence soon and Africans will become very senior people yet our friend Kibaki has no job apart from this Executive Officer and they do not even pay him. I would like you to speak to him because I would like to give him a job at EABL. I know that we white people will not be here forever... When I look around at all the black people that I know, it is only Mwai who would be- come Managing Director of EABL.”
That was an extremely big job and I agreed to persuade Kibaki to accept Hobson’s offer. I took him for a drink at Kimangu Bar in River Road owned by (former Nairobi PC) Fred Waiganjo.
I kept this as a secret because I did not want other people to compete for the same position. I also knew that if Kibaki got the position he would be able to buy me beer. I told Kibaki to forget the Kanu business and that I would take him the following day to Brian and soon he would be the managing director and then Chairman of EABL. He just told me, thank you very much for your faith in me Mr Karume.
“Go back to Brian and relay this decision,” he told me.
The formation of Democratic Party
We were celebrating a Christmas party in Mombasa when Kibaki called a journalist and told her to go and announce his resignation from the Government. Moi was very angry and disappointed. He would have wanted to fire Kibaki.
Three days later in Parliament I consulted with John Keen and suggested we form our own party. Keen was categorical that Kibaki must be in it. We called Kibaki and he said, Tuanzeni... That evening we met for a drink in Jacaranda, and the next day at John Keen’s residence.
Family
I remember when Tony was about to be born. We drove to Kibaki’s house and Lucy was expectant. Kibaki held her hand and said: this week will not go by without you delivering. Two days later, Kibaki informed me that Tony had been born at Nairobi Hospital.
Lucy has been supportive of Kibaki all this time. They have a very good family.
Sourced: from Mwai Kibaki, 50 years of national service
It's Me Scumbag
Elder Lister
Senior officers escorting the body wanakaa kuumia saidi
Ngimanene na Muchere
Elder Lister
Si hii ni ile Jaguar ya Lee
Ngimanene na Muchere
Elder Lister
Huku ndiko leafy 'burbs.... Huku kwingine ni vumbistan na matopeni
cheki number plate dadii.
It's Me Scumbag
Elder Lister
Wameomba wakaweka their own registration number?
Ngimanene na Muchere
Elder Lister
Mamii, hii ni license plate ya military juu it's a military function.
President Mwai Kibaki free primary education made even Kimani Maruge at age of 84 years to go back to school in Jan 2004..his dream was to become a vertinary... He died in 2009..He holds the Guinness world record for being the oldest person to start primary school
Ngimanene na Muchere
Elder Lister
Nimeona hawa Plesdents wengine wakifika nikakumbuka mathiko ma Mandela vile wengi walifurika huko SA, Obama flew 16hrs non stop kuhudhuria masaa 2 halafu akarudi.