Former trade unionist Edward Mutahi Kahiga was sworn in as the fourth Governor of Nyeri County on Monday 13th November 2017 in a colourful ceremony skipped by other county bosses.

The 57-year-old former teacher, who was accompanied by his wife Caroline Wamaitha Mutahi, officially replaced his erstwhile boss Wahome Gakuru.

Dr Gakuru died in a road accident last week at Kabati, on the Nyeri-Nairobi highway, in Murang’a County.

I wish him well.

They were offended by the quick swearing in even before Gakurus body has been buried.The suspicion of something fishy in the accident/death is also playing a part and they feel very vulnerable.

They should have remembered this poem
Grass will grow

If you should take my child Lord
Give my hands strength to dig his grave
cover him with earth
Lord send a little rain
For grass will grow

If my house should burn down
So that the ashes sting the nostrils
Making the eyes weep
Then Lord send a little rain
For grass will grow

But Lord do not send me
Madness
I ask for tears
Do not send me moon hard madness
To lodge snug in my skull
I would you sent me hordes of horses
Galloping
Crushing
But do not break
The yolk of the moon on me.

– by Jonathan Kariara (1935 – 1993)

Good observation. There are some names you can't miss in almost every family.

Mutahi, ndirangu, Nderitu, Kariuki, muriuki, Wanjohi, wambugu. The kikuyu naming system was quite interesting. All these names have meanings.

But if you hear a Mbugua, Mburu, Kimani, Njuguna in Nyeri, just know that is either an immigrant or someone named after a relative from Kiambu/RV.

There was a time JTL was running the Mbugua of faiba commercial. And anytime he said "my name is mbugua from nyeri" it always felt odd. Personally i don't know of a Mbugua in Nyeri. I have a neighbour called Mburu whose mum was from kiambu.