04/07/2025
Jomo Kenyatta never slept at State House, Nairobi. He believed the foundation of the building had been solemnised with human blood and that colonialists had liberally offered human sacrifices there when it was still the colonial Governor's mansion, and evil spirits apparently roamed there by night. He commuted to his Gatundu home or preferred the more "local" Nakuru State House.
Mrs Mumbi Madoka, Kenyatta's Social Secretary, says in her book that one night, Kenyatta was working late and decided to just brave the spirits and sleep there. Then in the dead of night, frogs in the pool started croaking loudly. Dawn was nearing, but old Jomo demanded to be driven to Gatundu because he didn't think those were just frogs!
When Moi took power, he preferred State House Nakuru too, but mostly his homes in Kabarak Nakuru and Kabarnet Gardens in Kibera. He undertook only state business at State House, Nairobi, then headed home. Kibaki stayed in the house on the hill in his early wheelchair days, but drifted to his Muthaiga home more. Uhuru's home was right next to State House, so he didn't need to move there at all.
Then Ruto arrived with this messianic complex, believing that he was the most religious President of all, and the house was reeking of evil from the four before him. Everything he saw there needed to be changed. They even dug up the grounds (someone cheekily commented that his Nigerian in laws had alluded to lots of witchcraft buried in the ground) and commissioned fresh cabro works. He trashed the roof, probably thinking that it was where Uhuru's bats were keeping vigil with witchcraft. In typical cultist fashion, he saw every symbol there as representing some sort of evil.
But building a church inside State House is confirmation of mental illness because;
1. You think it is your home.
2. You imagine your religion or denomination will be there forever. You forget that Muslims, Rastafarians, Hindus, Legio Maria adherents, Hema ya Ngai, Roho Israel Nineveh, Sorcerers and devil worshippers all have an equal chance of occupying the place.
3. If it's your own money as you claim, are you too re****ed to know you can't construct personal real estate in the country's most premier public property?
4. Will you carry that church home with you when your time comes?
5. You hide behind religion. State House, like the White House, are not run on cultist religious tenets. It is not a diocese or parish of any church. And there are at least twenty churches of different denominations within five kilometres of it, which you can go to, including the All Saints Cathedral, St Paul's Chapel, Maxwell Adventist, AIC Milimani, the Jewish Synagogue, the Hurlingham mosque, the Church of Scientology on Nyerere Road and the Freemason Grand Lodge. Only a sick narcissist needs to add a church there.
Oh, by the way, State House was built by Freemasons. So were the All Saints Cathedral, the Supreme Court building, Railways Headquarters, City Hall, the Freemason Lodge, Parliament Buildings and the National Archives. Their architecture remains replete with Masonic symbolism. You can't change all of them.
