Kangubiri (kangufiri)was a minimum security holding place for detainees who had been declared reformed and were in the process of reintegration back to society. The colonial DC would then declare that "those ones can go free" and the homeguards and waitinas would say muthungu oiga acio ni kangobiri (mzungu has said those ones can go free.

nanyuki maasai called it ang'ata nanyookie or place of red soil
nakuru: massai called it place of nakurro or the whirlwind yaani kisulisuli

1.Thimbigua-A tank was built in the area andwas referred to as "The big one)
2.Sotik- a mzungu insulted a local " you are so thick"
3.Kibiingoti-A road sign read "keep off the goats"
4.Endebess-End of the base
5.Bureti-"Pure tea"
6.Belgut-"Very good"
7.Kilifi-"Cliff"
8.Lukenya-"Look at Kenya"
9.Kariobangi="carry your bags"
10.Kapropita="Corporal peter"

.Kariobangi="carry your bags

Carry your bangi...

I am told Juja is named after two jujus that were obtained from West Africa by a certain settler who owned the land stretching to Kilimambogo from the current Juja. One juju was called Ju and the other Ja. Not clear why he buried them in an undisclosed location around Gatuanyaga. Is it so?

Another version has it that there was a big butter bean plant and the place was thus called Kinoe later changed to Kinoo.