The day Mwai Kibaki refused to save his nephew's job

Nyayo followers led by then-Vice President and Minister for Home affairs, Mwai Kibaki as they held a loyalty demonstration along Nyeri town streets after the coup attempt. [File, Standard]

In a country where cronyism and nepotism are rife, disciplining an errant worker can be a nightmare for a boss. And for a worker whose uncle was the second most powerful man in Kenya, nothing was supposed to go wrong in the workplace. Sacking was the last thing on their mind.

However, all these presumptions were shattered. It started with an unsettled debt with a client which led to a dismissal of a well-connected worker from an audit firm that had offices in Nyeri.