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We built Coop from scratch, Pioneer coop man who presided over construction bell-bottom cooperative house says

Bernard Kathanga, founder chairman of Cooperative Bank of Kenya, during an interview on his profile, in Nairobi on Thursday, February 14 2019. [David Njaaga,Standard]

The man under whose watch the Co-operative House, a sturdy Nairobi landmark that withstood the August 7, 1998 bomb blast was built lists the 25-storey bell bottom shaped building among his key achievements in a life spanning 90 years.

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