Jimmy Kibaki, the late president's eldest son has paid tribute by remembering his dad, not as the leader of the country but as a man who shaped who he is, a mentor.
Speaking at the state burial ceremony at Othaya Approved School, Jimmy said "I would like to give an insight into the more relaxed life of Mwai Kibaki the tributes have been there they are basically focused on his tenure as a president.
My whole life, I think, with my dad has been a game of cat and mouse, my dad wanted me to pursue a life of excellence as he did and in many instances, he felt that I fell short of that. One instance is when I was in form 2, my academic grades were not representative of a son of Mwai Kibaki, the form one grades were quite terrible and form 2 grades were quite abysmal."
He continued, "We got our grades and we each would take them to him in his sitting room, he had his own sitting room and we would sit with him and gave the report, Judy had her report. She was a straight-A student, and then we had David, who was an academic genius.
My mother made it a point that I was the last one to give my report. Mzee looked at my report and I remember him going up back to the report where the name was because he thought it was a mistake, this cannot be my son, Then he asked my mother, these grades are out of what? Is it out of 50 or out of what?
My mother said it is per cent."
Kibaki was unimpressed and very disappointed at the low marks Jimmy had received.
"Mzee gave me one of those looks when he is very angry, those piercing looks because he doesn't shout."
He said, "Jimmy, let's do this, forget about this school business, let me take you to our farm at Naro there you can look after my cows and I will pay you a small wage it won't be for free."
I think when he saw me contemplating that, he told my mother, 'You know, Mathare hospital is not far away from Muthaiga, shall we take this boy there to get his head examined so that we can determine it is not his brain that has a problem and that he is just lazy!'
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