Francis Thuo: Taxi driver who became a stock broker, two-term MP

Francis Thuo

By the time he died in November 2006, the one-time taxi driver had entered the annals of history as the first indigenous Kenyan to own a stock brokerage firm.

Francis Mwangi Thuo, the man who sported a jet-black Nat King Cole hairdo, rose from a cab driver to ownership of the eponymous, Francis Thuo and Partners, besides serving two terms as MP for Kigumo Constituency.