Man Who Drove President Uhuru to School Asks Kenyatta Family to Reward Him with Land and a Car

Robert Mugo Mboi, the man who was employed to drive President Uhuru and his siblings to school, is pleading with the family to reward him for his services.

Mugo, a resident of Gatumbi village in Gichugu, Kirinyaga County, wants the family to give him a parcel of land and a car promised to him by Mzee Jomo Kenyatta before his death in 1978.

The 78-year-old retired GSU officer says he used to drop off and pick up Uhuru, his brother Muhoho and sister Nyokabi at St Mary’s School in Nairobi daily from Gatundu.

In an interview with Nation, the man expressed his desire to meet President Kenyatta to rekindle old memories and ask him to help his grandchildren, who are jobless.

"Kama ingewezekana tuonane hivi itakuwa vizuri Zaidi. I also have three grandchildren who are graduates but have no job. I would love to see them employed," Mugo told Nation.

Mugo says the last time he saw and met the president was during the election campaign in 2017.

"We met a Kianyaga. He asked me 'Have you met Mum?' I said 'I can't get there lest I be beaten. He told me, 'Give me your number.' The number was taken by his people and that got lost there," he added.

Mugo, who served as a GSU constable from 1966 to 1997, lives in a wooden structure with a cement foundation.