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Kibaki built roads but wouldn't give students loaves of bread

President Uhuru Kenyatta shakes hands with former president the late Mwai Kibaki during the beatification of Sr. Irene Stefani Nyaatha at the Kimathi grounds on May 23, 2015. [Jacob Otieno, Standard]

Former President Mwai Kibaki was many things to many people. Brilliant and strategic to some, cold and calculating to others. Some even found him aloof and elitist. He dispensed with small talk, giving short shrift to those he considered middling idiots, many times tolerating them only for the political expediency they served.

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