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President Daniel Arap Moi attends the wedding ceremony of Uhuru Kenyatta and Margaret Gakuo at Holy Family Basilica in Nairobi in December 1989. [File, Standard]
Dr Njuguna Gakuo, father of First Lady Margaret Gakuo Kenyatta, was the first African managing director of Kenya Railways after taking over from GPG Mackay in 1964.
That was three years after he returned from Germany, where he taught for a year after graduating with a PhD in Economics from Frelberg University in 1960. He also taught African studies for three years at Delhi University after earning his BA and MA degrees in Commerce from the Delhi School of Business in 1955.
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