The Immortals:The Gecagas- Chips off the old family block

The Hon. Mrs. J. T. Gecaga, government nominated member of Kenya Legislative council, with her husband and her two children, Mary and John on their return from a tour of the port of Mombasa. Photo: File

Theirs is a blessed fortune borne of solid education and high-level family connections. John Mareka Gecaga was a career teacher besides dabbling in politics at the African Native Commission in the ‘60s. He died at 100 in 1979. He had other children, but here is the lineage that has carved its name in blue chip boardroom and diplomacy via one son — Bethuel Mareka Gecaga:

BM Gecaga: Alliance High Alumnus, Class of 1937, and proceeded to Makerere and Middle Temple College where he graduated with honours in law, Class of ‘56. He became Barrister-at-Law, Registrar General Department, Ministry of Legal Affairs and director of East African Tobacco Company, at independence, in 1963.