Kenya’s former Vice President’s mansion now home to wild animals

A swimming pool in the compound

• A mansion belonging to Kenya’s former Vice President the late Joseph Murumbi is now an eyesore
• Murumbi’s 35 room mansion is worn out, desolate and overtaken by the elements
• It was once a luxurious retirement home with many servants, home to his famed art collections
• He was the second Vice President of Kenya

Whenever he was tired of the busy city life and needed some rest, Kenya’s former Vice President the late Joseph Murumbi would travel to his 35-room mansion in Intona Ranch, Trans Mara, to while away time.

It was a house befitting Dr Murumbi’s political stature. But were he and his wife Sheila to come back to life today and take a flight to their Intona home from their tombs in Murumbi Garden in Nairobi, they would probably not locate their compound.