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Inside Mwai Kibaki's brilliant economic thinking

Mwai Kibaki tabled a six-year development plan for the country between 1964 and 1970. [File, Standard]

Departed former President Mwai Kibaki was Kenya’s longest-serving minister for Finance and among the few who have left the docket with their reputation intact.

Between 1969 and 1981, two presidents - Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel Arap Moi - entrusted Mr Kibaki with overseeing the ever contentious decision of allocating the country’s scarce resources.

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