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Sabina Joy founder Gerald Gikonyo Kanyuira dies at 110, leaves behind billionaire legacy

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On the morning of June 13, Nairobi woke up to the news that an old man had passed on at his house on the city's Luthuli Avenue. But Gerald Gikonyo Kanyuira was not just another old man in the city. He was the city.

The 110 year-old Kanyuira was not only an embodiment of joy and happiness. He sold it to Nairobians and made billions while at.

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