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Kibaki had no time for walking sticks, reading glasses, hats or trench coats

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Dressed in his dark-blue suits,President Mwai Kibaki often took afternoon strolls along pedestrian walkways outside his Muthaiga residence in Nairobi. Instead of sneakers, he spotted his laced black Oxford shoes, the security detail in tow.

Even under a baking sun, the retired president was ever in dark-blue ties, never the red ones preferred by politicians as the colour of power.   

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