Titus Mbathi: My lessons in high office and short stint in politics

After orientation at Jeanes School, Kabete, Mbathi was first posted to Athi River detention camp to assist the Commandant Major James Breckenridge in rehabilitation of Mau Mau detainees. Later, he was handed a Land Rover, a driver, a camera, a film projector and audio visual gadgets and dispatched to Kitui.

Mbathi went on to serve in same capacity in Embu, before landing a Fullbright scholarship to study for an MA Economics degree in the US for two years. He returned in 1961, and was appointed lecturer in economics at Jeanes School, Kabete.

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