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Darling of private investors, Mwai Kibaki did not leave any money to lie idle

Former President Mwai Kibaki. [File, Standard]

There was a joke on the streets that if you asked Emilio Mwai Kibaki for money, he would politely ask you to visit a bank and get a loan.

Some thought that President Kibaki, who died yesterday at the age of 90, was tight-fisted. So mean was he, they lamented, that upon rising to power, he mopped up all the loose coins that people would previously bump into.

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