The former presidential candidate, Peter Kenneth revealed in a tribute to the late Safaricom boss, Bob Collymore that he couldn't afford Collymore's expensive bespoke tailor.

They visited Ozwald Boateng's shop.

"I vividly remember one occasion, when he was fitting a new suit, he asked the tailor to sell the rest of us suits but the price was beyond our budgets. We politely told the tailor that we would return at a later date," Kenneth reminisced in the tribute at All Saints Cathedral earlier today.

While on their way to dinner, Collymore and Kenneth stopped by a car showroom to check out a few vehicles.

Kenneth saw a particular ride and fell madly in love with it.

"On our way to dinner that evening, we stopped at a car showroom and I showed him what I thought was a nice car. That is when he vented out his frustration at our not buying suits from his favourite tailor, quipping that the car was worth an awful lot of suits. The next morning in Isuma, he Mpesad me Ksh 1,000 shillings as a start-up fund for buying the car," he noted.

The tailor's good job was defended by the tribute also given by the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair.

Blair told the congregation that he personally knows Collymore's tailor.

Blair affirmed, "I know that tailor, the man (Peter Kenneth) spoke about, I actually did have a conversation with Bob about that tailor, I used that tailor, he is a great tailor."

Ozwald Boateng has had a transformational impact on menswear fashion for almost three decades, with a design aesthetic rooted in Savile row traditions but defined by international style, detail, and artistry.

His instinctive use of colour, cut and fabric fuses traditional classic British tailoring with a high-end modern design focus on the refinement of a man’s silhouette, this has brought tailoring to a whole new generation of men.

Born in London to Ghanaian parents Ozwald Boateng's talent for flare and design came very early, after dropping out of the computing course he was studying at the time he enrols into Southgate College to study fashion.

Recognising that the signs for his future career had been around him all along, working from his mother's sewing machine he created his first collection which he sold to menswear fashion store Sprint in London's Covent Garden in the late 80s.