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DP leaders John Keen (left), Mwai Kibaki and Njenga Karume during a political rally in Limuru, Kiambu, in August 1992. [File, Standard]
There are many slips between the ribs and the lips which almost ruined Jomo Kenyatta's chances of being the country's first-ever Prime Minister in 1963.
The Constitution then had been crafted to create the post of a Prime Minister who was to work with Malcom MacDonald, the colonial governor, even as London retained Foreign Affairs and National Defense dockets.
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