How rent spat with landlord led Kirubi to own iconic city building

Chris Kirubi died from what his family described as a “long illness bravely borne”. Left, International Life House on Mama Ngina Street, Nairobi. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

An altercation with his landlord over delay in paying office rent at a city building fired up businessman Chris Kirubi’s ambition to own the building.

In revelations made by his former colleagues at a prayer service on Wednesday, Kirubi was so irked by a threat by Queens Way Development Cooperation that he vowed he would own the building some day.