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Booze taps run dry: Kenya's new State House shifts to the holy spirit

Kenya's First Lady Mama Rachel Ruto.

Former President Uhuru Kenyatta loved his tipple, and many photographs and video clips about of the Son of the Burning Spear seemingly high in the spirit world.
Memorable is a video clip of the then President addressing St Mary's School old boys where his manner of speech and glint in the eye suggested he was in the cups. Then there was one, from South Africa, where a young man was asked by a journalist which president in Africa he liked the most, and the reason why.
"I like Kenya's president because he is always high. He is the bomb!" Oops.

Kenya's first president, Jomo Kenyatta, reportedly loved washing down roast goat ribs with glasses of Muratina in the state house, where he rarely slept, fearing white ghosts and frogs. His successor, Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi, preferred uji, milk, and boiled maize and beef. He didn't like alcohol or alcoholism, although he was said to fancy a glass of wine after dinner.

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