During Mzee Jomo Kenyatta’s 40th memorial at the Holy Family Basilica, President Uhuru Kenyatta tickled funny bornes when he demanded his late dad’s pension plan money from Nairobi governor Mike Sonko.
Uhuru was jokingly talking about when the founding father was working as a meter reader in Nairobi.
“And by the way Governor Sonko mama anauliza pension yake iko wapi hamjamlipa… anataka kujua pension iko wapi?”
In 1921, Mzee Kenyatta worked for then council as a water meter reader in Nairobi. He used a motorbike for his errands.
The first Kenyan head of state late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta died in a sleep on 22nd, August 1978 while in sleep at Mombasa State House.
Below is President Uhuru’s speech in detail
“We are not here to glorify a man because he was human like everybody else. And being human there were the great things that he managed to achieve for their country but there were also issues that he was confronted with like the rest of us. Like the bishop has told, I believe today more than anything else, is a day where we have an opportunity to reflect on that past and on that history and to see in ourselves, through the lenses of his life who we are today. And where are we going as a people and as a nation. And even as we reflect as Hon Raila has said here we are talking about a man who had lived many different episodes in his life,” he said.
“From a small boy who was a herdsman, a boy who went to school with his auntie. To working at the council as a county as a water meter reader. And by the way Governor Sonko mama anauliza pension yake iko wapi hamjamlipa… anataka kujua pension iko wapi? To representing his people in the United Kingdom and so on and so forth.”
