Day VP's briefcase disappeared from a London hospital

Then-NARC leaders Charity Ngilu, Mwai Kibaki and Kijana Wamalwa at Landmark Hotel in April 2002. [File, Standard]

How could a briefcase taken from a man's deathbed 6,800km in London generate so much controversy in the city in the sun?

For some time, the whereabouts of the briefcase overshadowed the tragedy that had befallen Kenya and driven Mwai Kibaki, the then commander in chief of the armed forces, to shed tears in public.