Kabaa High School: Where Kibaki, Otunga, Ndingi prayed for pardon

Kabaa High School in Machakos. Alumni Mwai Kibaki, Tom Mboya and Ndingi Mwana a’Nzeki

 

• Kabaa High School was an academic giant till the government took it from the Catholic Church
• Notable alumni include former President Mwai Kibaki, Archbishop Ndingi Mwana a’Nzeki and the late Maurice Cardinal Otunga

Kabaa High School in Mbiuni, Machakos County, was started by Dutch priest Fr Michael Witte of the Holy Ghost Fathers in 1924.

The boys’ school started with 35 pupils, but was converted into a teachers’ training college, then into a primary boarding school, and later into an intermediate school in 1939.