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There's a big story here for good story tellers to tell. The Silverbeck Hotel, smack on the equator as you enter Nanyuki town from Nairobi. Dilapidated cottages inside overgrown bushes that have remained closed since the reception, bar and restaurant building burnt down in 1972.
Then the property of Jomo Kenyatta's close confidante and powerful Rift Valley Provincial Commissioner Isaiah Mwai Mathenge, you would have a drink at the bar with one foot on the northern hemisphere and the other on the south with the equator in between.
Since that fire that night 48 years ago, the place has remained closed save for a short period when someone attempted to revive it just to be cut back by the myriad legal battles that have persisted since then. It is a story of intrigues, power, high politics, treachery and all.
Whoever eventually tells this story will also need to move around some other properties of former PC Mathenge, who later became the MP for Nyeri Town, huge properties all around the country, from the former Rift Valley, Eastern to Coast provinces where he served as PC. Intrigues.
Right inside Nanyuki town, next to the County Commissioner's office is the former Marina Bar, Restaurant & Bakery a gem of it's day but also closed for decades now. More mystery. Big twist.
I've a few recollections myself but I don't trust myself to tell it well.
Hey @Owaahh!
I've a few recollections myself but I don't trust myself to tell it well.
Hey @Owaahh!
PS. For whosoever be the story teller I've some up close anecdotes about this interesting Jomo Kenyatta era trio of the late ex PC Mathenge, former Rift Valley provincial engineer and East African Safari Rally driver Kim Gatende and maverick businessman Joseph "JK" Mugambi.
