In 2016, President Uhuru Kenyatta took Mashujaa Day celebrations to Machakos County where he unveiled the statue of Paul Ngei after whom Ngei estate is named.
Machakos town was where John Ainsworth, Kenya’s first Chief Native Commissioner, wanted the capital of the Kenya colony to be. Machakos, one of the colony’s largest ivory trading centres, was named after odieros mispronounced the name of wealthy Chief Masaku wa Munyati, the real Kahuna in business there. Wouldn’t Chief Masaku’s statue have been more befitting than Ngei’s?