How chief licensing officer helped Njonjo smuggle guns

The late Charles Mugane Njonjo. [File, Standard]

Guns and politics make life interesting in Kenya. For close to a year, it was almost impossible to draw former President Uhuru Kenyatta out in public, where he had been vilified by his detractors for all manner of alleged ills.

But it took one visit by some state agents to the home of Jomo Kenyatta in Karen, Nairobi, and Uhuru came out to defend his son (Jomo) from accusations that he was holding guns illegally.