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How Kenneth Matiba used export beer to drown snails and save flowers

A snail is diplayed during World Snail Tourism Day. [File, Standard]

What would be a perfect gift for a teetotaler to an Anglican missionary? A bible embellished with an animal skin and in African artefacts? Wrong! Veteran politician Kenneth Matiba chose to gift his long lost missionary friend, a case of Guinness stout bottles.

When an agent of Kenya Breweries Limited (KBL) knocked on the door of Cyril Hooper in England to offer a couple of stout beers, the missionary who had once served at Kahuhia in Murang'a was not scandalised.

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