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How John Michuki helped Kenneth Matiba buy prime land in Limuru

Jacob Mwongo (second left) with other GEMA leaders at a meeting in Nyeri, March 1976. [File, Standard]

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.

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