Did you Know? Sagana State Lodge was one of 2,000 gifts to the Queen

Queen Elizabeth's visit to Kenya in 1959       Photo: Courtesy

President Uhuru Kenyatta made use of the Sagana State Lodge, in Nyeri County last week when he opened a two-day conference for Governors and Senators to discuss the achievements and challenges of devolution.

Sagana is a State Lodge where Kenya’s president can hole up for a night while on duty. It’s not a State House. There are only three State Houses in the country - in Nairobi, Nakuru and Mombasa (where Uhuru’s old guy was ‘killed by death’ in August 22, 1978). It was also from State House Mombasa (which Kenyatta I had his ‘working holidays’) where State House Comptroller, Eliud Mathu once went missing for days only to be discovered ‘cut like a diamond’ in a ditch in Ganjoni, as Duncan Ndegwa notes in his 2009 memoirs, Walking in Kenyatta Struggles: My Story.