Unfortunate twist: Once wealthy Nairobi engineer’s family faces auction

Catherine Wairimu Wambogo (R) wife to late Wambogo who was a civil engineer, and Isabella Wanjiru (L) daughter, narrate how Nairobi County Government wants to evict them. [PHOTO: EDWARD KIPLIMO/STANDARD]

NAIROBI: A popular legend among Engineer Jenneby Wambugu Kirige’s relatives is that his exceptional brilliance once provoked a missionary educationist to make a journey to his Nduma Village, hunting for him.

Sharp witted to the bone, Wambugu had joined Alliance High School, at the time when Carey Francis’s reputation of churning out creditors for the nation, not debtors, was at its peak.