Kitisuru: Here, odieros could not say ‘Gitathuro’
A section of Kitisuru [Photo: Courtesy]
Kitisuru, Nairobi's up-market estate, came into the limelight in 2010 when one of its famous residents became frail, sickly and 'imprisoned' inside his mansion's imposing metal gates.
Gerishon Kirima, a once-powerful city politician and well-heeled businessman, was said to have been kept away from family and friends. The then badly needed medical care, according to one of his daughters who spoke to the press at the time, had allegedly been withheld by his third wife, Teresia Wairimu.
Three doors, one of them grilled, had to be broken for Kirima to be secured. His feet were swollen and couldn't fit into blue-patterned loafers. He had to be helped out. In the emotive scene, a sobbing Kirima, in a red jumper, hugged his grandchildren; Gerald, Gabriel, Waruguru, Wairimu, Charlotte and Ruthie, while asking: "Why did you abandon me? I feel like I'm dying." "You are not dying dad," they had reassured him amid tears.