City building that few people know about

Many people have passed near The Kenya National Archives located on Moi Avenue next to Ambassadeur Hotel, but have no idea what really happens there. Random questions brings out the ignorance of many about this national treasure. To a taxi driver who operates at the parking adjacent to the building it is, “a repository for worn out currency before it is taken for incineration by concerned Government authorities.”

Never mind, the driver has been operating here for the past 12 years. Next came Fredrick Ouma*, a young man in his late 20s. When asked about the National Archives, with all the confidence he could muster he said, “I think it’s a museum where they keep Omweri, the famous snake from Nyanza. I’ve been meaning to visit the premises so that I can see what became of the creature.”