WHY KIBAKI LET HIS BROTHER DIE POOR

In interviews done by the People Daily sometime back, it curiously emerges the former President, Mwai Kibaki hardly caused a conspicuous change in the lives of his deceased brother Nderitu and his entire family as Kenyans might have assumed.
However, Nderitu(the late Kibaki’s brother) and Waitherero(sister) were a jovial lot, and hoped soon they would be living with their executive brother without He said Kenyans should understand it was their resolve not to just rely on the former President for their upkeep and that was why they worked and lived like other ordinary rural folk at Gatuyaini, a few kilometres from Othaya town.
Nderitu, whom the people newspaper found tending to his lush tea crop at Gatuiyaini village in Othaya, said although their lives never changed a lot after their brother became President, they met their daily obligations courtesy of Kibaki’s helping hand.
However, looking at the grandfatherly man with a wizened brow, one could hardly associate presidential lineage in his family. Nderitu walked the village paths like any other local resident and when he travelled to Nairobi, he used a matatu.
When he disembarked at the famous Tea Room stage, few passengers with him could tell who he was….
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“As his family, we long for the day when our brother will come home for retirement. For me, although we only see him a few times due to his national status,I wish we could go back to the old times when we would share arrow roots and graze animals together,’’ Nderitu was quoted saying.
“We live in timber houses but we are comfortable. We were never going to change our way of life because our brother became President, ” said Nderitu….
He said Kenyans should understand it was their resolve not to just rely on the former President for their upkeep and that was why they worked and lived like other ordinary rural folk at Gatuyaini, a few kilometres from Othaya town.
Nderitu, whom the people newspaper found tending to his lush tea crop at Gatuiyaini village in Othaya, said although their lives never changed a lot after their brother became President, they met their daily obligations courtesy of Kibaki’s helping hand.
However, looking at the grandfatherly man with a wizened brow, one could hardly associate presidential lineage in his family. Nderitu walked the village paths like any other local resident and when he travelled to Nairobi, he used a matatu.
When he disembarked at the famous Tea Room stage, few passengers with him could tell who he was….