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The rungu, a crown and heavy military boots were the stock in trade. When a blanket was thrown in as well a fistful of medals, the picture was complete.
Some locational chiefs sought supernatural powers to stupefy their subjects whom they ruled with extreme terror and violence. They employed headmen and spearmen known as tribal retainers, whom they paid out of their own pockets. These retainers acted as aides who however had no official salaries but were paid from the spoils of war against the citizenry.
A study on introduction of the institution of the chief in Kenya by the colonial government is as entertaining as it is chilling. Far from the administrators they were projected to be by their bosses, majority of the first generation colonial chiefs appointed between 1901 and 1920, were village tyrants who had just evolved from social misfits.
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