Helipad, Jacuzzi: Mwai Kibaki’s Sh400 million Nyeri mansion sitting on 100 acres

Kibaki's house is located in a deeply-forested area with only the red-tiled roof visible to motorists along the busy Nyeri-Nyahururu road.

As the sun was setting on Mwai Kibaki’s presidency, the government offered to build him a retirement home in his Nyeri backyard. Plans to construct the house started in 2010 when President Kibaki travelled to Nyeri to identify the land where it would stand. After identifying the piece of land on the expansive Sasini estate, just outside Nyeri town, construction of the mega house started in earnest. The Sh400 million home, located in Mweiga, was completed by the time Kibaki left office in March 2013.

The former president, in one of his hilarious public engagements, remarked that, “I’m a town fella.”