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When it was time for a retired colonial District Commissioner to leave Kenya due to uncertainties of how the free country would be governed, he decided to dispose of his piece of heaven in the white highlands.
But DC Igor Gillespie who had served in Embu got more than he had bargained for once word went round that he was selling his land in Riara Ridge, in Limuru.
In this locality where thousands of families had been dispatched to Nakuru as squatters by the colonial government to create an exclusive, whites only territory, Gillespie had acquired 120 acres from His Majesty's Government.
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