Tucked in a lonesome corner at a Nairobi hotel and striking a pensive posture only 15 hours before President Uhuru Kenyatta’s visit to Meru County, Governor Peter Ngatirau Munya cuts the image of Mark Antony in William Shakespeare’s classic, Antony & Cleopatra.
In the classic, the Roman general meets the Egyptian queen for the first time in Tarsus city in Turkey as she makes a grand entry into the city through River Cydnus (today’s Berdan River) in a royal barge steered by a mermaid.