The day Mwai Kibaki refused to save his nephew's job

Nyayo followers led by then-Vice President and Minister for Home affairs, Mwai Kibaki as they held a loyalty demonstration along Nyeri town streets after the coup attempt. [File, Standard]

In a country where cronyism and nepotism are rife, disciplining an errant worker can be a nightmare for a boss. And for a worker whose uncle was the second most powerful man in Kenya, nothing was supposed to go wrong in the workplace. Sacking...