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THE STANDARD By
Biketi Kikechi |
February 2nd 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
From left: Kalonzo Musyoka, Charity Ngilu, Simeon Nyachae and Raila Odinga walk out of Uhuru Park, Nairobi after a rally in the run-up to the 2002 elections. [File, Standard]
The trust and faith the first president of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta, had in Simeon Nyachae manifested in his being appointed Rift Valley’s Provincial Commissioner after independence.
The province at the time, and indeed during the one-party rule, was no ordinary station because Kenyatta had a lot of business and political interests in the region.
And there was no better person to oversee these interests than Nyachae, a man whose father, Chief Musa Nyandusi, happened to be Kenyatta’s confidant.