The day Mwai Kibaki's son hinted that ex-president was in his last days

A section of the Kibaki family. [File, Standard]

Mid-January this year, I had breakfast with former President Mwai Kibaki’s elder son Jimmy. We were to talk about politics of the day and the stand of a political outfit he had joined which goes by the name The Young Democrats (TND).

But - as you would expect - we could not avoid talking about his dad, Emilio Stanley Mwai wa Kibaki. I asked him how it was to be born and brought up by a father who was a great public figure. Jimmy was born in 1964 when his father was assistant minister, later full Cabinet minister, vice president and president.