[quote=Lolest!][quote]At the height of his power, Mr Biwott was as feared as much as his character boarded on paranoia.
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Very true. Back in early 90s, we'd gone to Eldoret club for a golf tourney. Happens one of my buddies came late. He used to drive a funny looking Land Rover 109. Can't tell what happened but i think he smashed into an S-Klasse as he maneuvered his junk into perking. It was Biwott's limo and even though he was nowhere around, his guards disappeared with my man and we did not see him for a couple of days. It actually took the intervention of the late Mzee Michael Sang to have our man released. His vehicle was later delivered piggyback on a lorry by a then senior assistant police commish and he was warned to never ever drive the "junk" again....and he never

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There was a famous bookstore on Moi Avenue, I think it might have closed much later... but anyhow this bookshop was sued by Total man for selling a book that had mentioned him adversely. they were forced to pay him 5 million shillings. This was in the 90s can you imagine a bookshop having to come up with 5 million. I do not think they ever fully recovered.

Exactly! Ndiyo hiyo guka. After that book sellers were so scared. I remember not long after I wanted to buy a copy of Karl Marx's "Das Kapital" and I think I first went to Book Point where they told me point blank they do not have it, cannot order it for me and will not sell it. I then went to Sarit thinking I would have a better chance at Text Book Center only for them to actually tell me they too cannot sell such a book because it was on a list of banned books. There was actually a list of books that was banned!!! Tumetoka mbali kweli.

Such vanity.

So you accumulate so much ill-gotten wealth mpaka it becomes a noose around your neck, and you harass so many pple (such as grabbing land from elderly widows) mpaka you become paranoid and always watching over your neck:

1) for a short distance of less than 10km from CBD to Langata he would change cars 3 times,

2) sometimes his bodyguard would sit in the back seat of his merc,

3) sometimes he was in a VW Beetle - its like being a bird,pecking food and looking over your shoulder before taking the next peck...sad sad life

How is Em-O-One looking at manenos: his cronies/pple of his reign - GG Kariuki, Mark Too, TM,etc) are kicking the bucket pole pole...