Controversial Tycoon and ‘Men’s Conference Chairman’ Jackson Kibor Dies in Eldoret

That is sad,Jackson always enlivened our days any time we read about his antics and wrangles with his wives, he was a true African guy never taking the nonsense lying down. A true old school macho.I will surely miss him. There are not many real men around nowadays that we can look up to. Sad.

If GOD Rested on the Seventh day, why We all Do the Same. Working, WORKing, and WORKING everyday. This man WORKED too much to make Money; nearly Everyday. Now look!🙄

Death is for all. I get real happy when such dies!

Farmer Jackson Kiprotich Kibor really had a colorful life. Made a fortune, fathered 26 children, and fought court battles with some of them and won. If there is anything like hell or heaven, the inhabitants need to know that Kiprotich is one Samburu man who does not take no mess from anyone.

Farmer Jackson Kiprotich Kibor lived his life to the fullest. Never missed a bit of the good, bad and the angry.

Some bit of interesting history. I first met Kibor as a child- staying with my late grandma who worked on the shamba that kibor bought in Kipkabus. Unknown to my grandma and all the poor people who had worked on that farm for years the land had been sold by the muzungu who had employed my grandma and her many women/men friends- it was during the time the whites were leaving and some surrendered the land "back to government" which sadly "sold/gave to chosen few" under guise of "selling". The government cared not about the plight of my grandma and never negotiated any compensation for years worked! In one day they were homeless/jobless with nowhere to go. It is under those circumstances that I first see kibor- First the old muzungu came one last time- then looking old and frail- never came again and then his manyanga son came to supervise workers- only two weeks and then comes "a beautiful/handsome/tall dark young man" now known as kibor. I asked what had happened to muzungu and got no answer- everyone looked sad/worried/very afraid and even as a small child I could tell all was not well. The shamba had pyrethrum which my grandma and friends tended and kibor ran it for a few months before he gave notice to my people to leave! His right because he had "bought the hundreds of acres". Since my grandma and all workers lived at the "workers camp" by that act they had no home- they had worked there since the 40's it is now end of 60's. He started grazing cows on the farm and pyrethrum farming was over. I write this with mixed emotions- I cannot hate him for taking over his property but cannot forgive the Kenyatta government which paid no attention to workers plight all who were illiterate and had no awareness of their rights as workers- I hear the British government paid the Kenyan government for land transfer to pay departing whites but your guess is as good as mine- those in government took the money - assigned in name of "selling" the land left to themselves and cronies and left the poor workers stranded/dry/desperate in Rift Valley with no where to go- and that is your genesis of land issues! Eventually my grandma/uncle and my small self relocated to burnt forest in 1968 and left kibor's shamba- one of my uncle lived on as a squatter at the same place till 1992 and kibor got a "good reason to deal with him in 1992" first onset of land "clashes/evictions" . I saw kibor all those years whenever I visited my late uncle- sometimes he would come grazing his cows next to my uncle "house" and would make tractors plough all the way to the door to humiliate him to leave- he got a good reason in 1992. And my grandma and some of her friends who had moved to burnt forest thought they had found peace- permanent home but not to be. It is strange that kibor was suspected to have had something to do with 2007 no raila no peace stuff- I have no evidence and after all that character is now "Uhuru's darling" Kibor should not be blamed at all. I only bring kibor link because then in 2007 the people he displaced in kipkabus were again moved displaced in 2007 and their lives changed for ever. My grandma never got to rest in burnt forest was buried in a public cemetery in Ol Kalau, poor and sad for what her country had done to her and to her grandchildren. It is strange that even with the experience I had with kibor I never at any time came to hate him- in fact he was so comical in the way he did things that I found it amusing. I can only fault my government which left me/my grandma/uncles other workers and my childhood friend who I last saw when we moved out at night from kibor farm in 1968 - Maina was his name- he had a sister too- I still miss you Maina and hope one day before we leave this world we shall meet- we never said goodbyes- everyone left crying!
And so I say fare thee well kibor- it was never your fault. I came to know your children who went to school with my cousins in Kipkabus- God is so kind those kids who were born on your farm- chased away in 1992 vulnerable and homeless today own their own homes in Nairobi and other places- all have grown to be super human beings who are so grateful to God. I thank you that you let them be born on your land and that is my history with kibor. This boy who was rescued at night after the houses were demolished forcing us to leave grew up to teach many young people in our schools and universities and hope they will be good people and make a difference in this world. May God remember the good you did for we can never avenge for ourselves.

Rest well .You did it your way to the very end .

Idolizing criminals like Kibor leaves some painful scars to many Kenyans. Kibor, like other KANU criminals like Biwott(who coined madoadoa thing), JJ Kamotho, Ole Ntimama, Bargetung, Salat, Chesire, Fred Gumo, GG Kariuki, Sharriff Nassir, Kamangara, Chotara, Kihonge, Ruto, Raila, Balala, Moi, Gideon Moi, Jonathan, Lotondo etc., were the characters behind the 1982, 1987, 1992, 1997, 2002, 2007/2008 so called ethnic cleansing, where tribes living in Kalenjin or Narok or West Pokot, some parts of Nakuru were kicked out of those areas so that they could not vote against these warlord criminals. The pain they inflicted on those families, they orphans they created to thousands of innocent children, the properties they destroyed and stole, and the disruption they caused on well settled Kenyans, led all these characters die a painful and a slow death, the loots not blocking the wrath of the Almighty God. Their generations will also pay dearly for the sins committed by their fathers and grandfathers. May mzee Kibor join his gang of KANU criminals in a boiling mega pot I moulded for them and sent to hell through FEDEX