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Hotel that Kibaki Took 20 Years Old Lucy for Date is on Sale

 

Hotel that Kibaki Took 20 Years Old Lucy for Date is on Sale
Hotel that Kibaki Took 20 Years Old Lucy for Date is on Sale

It is regarded as one joint that stocks some of the coldest beers in Nairobi. The four-storey Princess Hotel on Tom Mboya Street, is older than Kenyaโ€™s independence.

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And by the way, itโ€™s on sale for Sh240 millionโ€ฆ on OLX! The return on investment go something like this: The exhibition stalls on the ground floor rake in Sh366,000 monthly while the restaurant on first floor brings in Sh245,000.

The Princess Hotel has 22 units that purse up Sh627,000, but itโ€™s the bar that takes the financial biscuit at Sh2.7 million a month! That bar has quite a story as it was one place for Nairobiโ€™s whoโ€™s who, back in the day when the โ€˜colour-barโ€™ barred miros from odiero joints.
In fact, Nairobi only had The Ambassadeur Hotel on Moi Avenue as the other high-class place for nyeuthisโ€ฆ and The Princess, where politician and gender activist Wambui Otieno went to meet her lawyer, the late Akoko Mboya after she was released from detention in Lamu Island Prison.

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Akoko was in the company of SM Otieno that Januaryย ย  1961โ€“ the year SM returned from legal studies in Indiaโ€™s Bombay University as part of Oginga Odingaโ€™s Eastern Bloc- student โ€˜airliftsโ€™ as he competed with Tom Mboya-Julius Gikonyo Kianoโ€™s fronted Americanย  โ€˜airlifts.โ€™ As fate would have it, a friendship between SM and Wambui had struck when her dad, Tirus Waiyaki, was SMโ€™s supervisor at the High Court in the 1950s, and was rekindled at the Princess Hotel โ€“ where Wambui Otieno became a manager and part owner.

Swilling cold Whitecaps

Wambui โ€“ one of the less than five couples invited for Uhuru Day celebrations with the Shakespeare-quoting SM on December 12, 1963 โ€“ later gained national limelight during the bitter legal โ€˜battle for the bodyโ€™ when SM Otieno died of heart attack in December 1986. The City Mortuary was nicknamed โ€˜Stage ya SMโ€™ as that was where his corpse was under police guard in the seven months the SM Otieno case lasted.

Wambui lost the burial tussle to the Umira Kager Clan that buried SM Otieno in Nyalgunga under Luo customary law. But their love had blossomed at The Princess Hotel!

Retired President Kibaki learnt he had been appointed Kanuโ€™s organising secretary while swilling cold Whitecaps at The Princess Hotel in 1960 after returning from a teaching stint at Ugandaโ€™s Makerere University at the invitation of aforementioned Odinga.

Kibakiย  took Lucy Muthoni, an Alliance Girlsโ€™ High School alumni, trained teacher and college principal to The Princess Hotelโ€ฆ in a Volkswagen Beetle two years before marrying Kenyaโ€™s third First Lady in 1962! Kibaki was then 29, and the mother of Jimmy, Judy, Tony and David Kagai Kibaki, was 20.

Source-standardmedia.co.ke

Hotel that Kibaki Took 20 Years Old Lucy for Date is on Sale

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