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A businessman, a colonial settler and Jomo Kenyatta: A family’s long fight for JKIA land

John Kathumba Makuthi was a businessman who was once locked up in Kapenguria together with political detainees associated with Mau Mau after he rejected a proposal to work for the colonialgovernment.

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