Where is Uhuru’s big brother, Peter Magana?

Peter Magana meets Jomo Kenyatta at State House in July 1971

• He did not attend Uhuru Kenyatta’s inauguration in 2013 and has not been seen in other family functions like burials
• Peter Magana’s last known visit to Kenya was in 1979 for Jomo Kenyatta’s memorial and he never returned
• It is yet to be established whether he will attend today’s swearing in ceremony for his younger brother

In a 1978 photograph taken during the funeral of founding President Jomo Kenyatta, Peter Magana is seen sitting third, after the late Margaret Wambui and Peter Muigai- itself symbolic because he was Mzee’s third oldest child.

Born of Mzee and Edna Clarke- who coincidentally did not sit at the front with co-wives Grace Wahu and official First Lady Mama Ngina, on August 11, 1943 - during the first president’s long sojourn in London, other photos show that Peter, his wife and children used to visit the family frequently.