Uhuru's exit leaves Kenyatta kin with 'political dry spell'

When Mama Ngina Kenyatta was sworn in as Mayor of Nairobi in 1972. [File, Standard]

There was a time a foreign dignitary to Jomo Kenyatta's State House could wonder how connected the President's family was well represented within the high echelons of power. Arriving at the Embakasi airport (now JKIA), he would be received by Foreign Minister Njoroge Mungai and Nairobi Mayor Margaret Wambui Kenyatta.

After the short journey to State House, he would meet Mzee Kenyatta in the presence of his wife Mama Ngina Kenyatta, Dr Mungai, Ms Kenyatta the mayor, Office of the President Minister Mbiyu Koinange who would have most likely tagged his assistant minister Peter Muigai Kenyatta. The 1960s and 1970s were the heydays of the Kenyatta clan. The kin straddled the political scene as a colossus.