At the foot of the mountain, preacher was only available to a grieving granny at a fee

A section of Karatina Town.{Standard]

My tour of the "murima" couldn't be complete without detouring through Karatina, the bastion of former Deputy Prezzo Rigathi Gachagua aka Riggy G. I wanted to hear what the "ground," was saying, given the regular invocation of this phenomenon in our political discourse.

And I was fortunate because Karatina is one of those places where you just phone and say I'm in the hood, and doors are opened for you. We were welcomed into the home of an elderly but well-connected couple. They are what local media might call prominent local businessman and woman.