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Mayor John Mwangi King'ori, whose last trumpet called on Friday, January 22, 2021 served Nairobi residents as mayor of Nairobi for two years between 1996 and 1998. King'ori was the eighth mayor of Nairobi since independence. His tenure was marked with rib-cracking humour, which served as a form of entertainment for residents. Backed with a very modest academic background, he struggled to remain relevant in an office whose functions sometimes required modernism and sophistication.
When caught up in an English speaking or oriented environment, King'ori, the man from Karatina, never shied away from communicating in the same language the public thought he couldn't. With a straight face, he could mumble and fumble around words and phrases. Watching him doing this on TV was thrilling to Nairobians. Indeed, the media too enjoyed his interviews.
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