{"id":1146,"date":"2019-05-19T15:01:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T15:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nyandarua.com\/home\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2020-05-10T22:19:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T22:19:14","slug":"veterans-of-olkalou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyandarua.com\/home\/veterans-of-olkalou\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans of OlKalou"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block pg-opt box-content\">\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">T<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">here were <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">some <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">veterans of <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">OlKalou town<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> that everybody seemed to know or recognized. Most were the business people who provided goods and services to the people of OlKalou town, the Settlement Schemes and beyond. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">It was not unusual to find people from as far as Wanjohi, Kirima, Engineer, Rurii, Tumaini, Miharati all coming to shop and seek services from OlKalou. It was the local hub. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Here are a few of the veterans:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Kimani:<\/strong> \u00a0 His shop was on the opposite side of Gitiyo Bar and Wambiga&#8217;s butchery.\u00a0 Kimani was so good at customer service and he always greeted us with a warm smile.\u00a0 It was his shop where our mother sent us for SUTA.\u00a0 Incase you did not know about SUTA, it was a medicine that mothers swore cured a broad spectrum of illnesses.\u00a0 It was even crushed and given to domestic animals when our &#8220;doctor mother&#8221; thought they were ailing.\u00a0 A chicken starts tilting its head to the side (kugoiya ngingo) mother gave it SUTA, and sure enough it recovered.\u00a0 SUTA came in a huge tablet.\u00a0 I now wonder what medicine that was.\u00a0 Was it an antibiotic or what? \u00a0 Only mother knows.\u00a0 As time went on, I think SUTA was banned from the market.\u00a0 How do I know?\u00a0 Because mother sent us to Kimani&#8217;s shop and instructed us not to say SUTA by name.\u00a0 The code was &#8220;twatumwo ni mami&#8221; translation &#8220;mother sent us&#8221;.\u00a0 And with that, Kimani knew exactly what mother was asking for.\u00a0 He rolled a piece of paper into a cone shape, like those used for hawking peanuts around town, put a few SUTA tablets in and asked us to stash safely in our pocket.\u00a0 We did.\u00a0 Anybody with information about SUTA? \u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Serah:<\/strong>\u00a0 The other shop belonged to a cheerful, very light skinned, short lady named Serah or Nyina wa Chiru.\u00a0 Her shop was in the heart of town and she was known all over town for her friendly services. Her husband&#8217;s name was Mwangi but he was not as widely known as Serah.\u00a0 Infact a lot of us had never met him, and those who did, it was just a handful of times when Serah left him to man the shop during her brief absences.\u00a0 They had two daughters Wangari and Chiru. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Kuria &#8211; Photo Studio:\u00a0<\/strong> The first photo studio in OlKalou was owned by a Mr. Kuria.\u00a0 He was a handsome young man, always neatly dressed in stylish handmade sweaters, very light skinned with a wide gap in his front teeth (njarumi or as our Nyeri neighbors would say, thenya)\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">His wife worked with him at the Photo Studio and she was also famous for hand knitting beautifully designed\u00a0 sweaters for customers to supplement their income.\u00a0 That explains the beautiful sweaters that Kuria wore, making him the natural advertiser of his wife&#8217;s craft.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Kuria still owns a photo studio to this day, of course a highly modernized one, unlike when he started out in the 1980s, taking black and white and color photographs in negative films, waiting until the reel was full, then getting them developed into paper prints.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Kuria and his family were very active in the local Catholic Church, and they still are todate.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Kuria had younger twin sisters, who resembled him so much, they needed no introduction.\u00a0 They were both light skinned and had the same beautiful gap in their front teeth. They were the first set of identical twins we ever saw in OlKalou i<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">t was fascinating just looking at them and not being able to tell them apart.\u00a0 Like the rest of the family, they were active in the local Catholic Church where they sa<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">ng in the choir and played drums.\u00a0 The twins however left the Catholic Church sometimes in the 1980s and joined the &#8220;mai maingi&#8221; sect, we could tell from their ankle length pleated dresses and boxy headscarves that covered their ears.\u00a0 They were still beautiful and a sight to behold.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Tom &#8211; Tailor:\u00a0<\/strong> There was a young tailor named Tom who became known all over OlKalou when his wife Joyce won the top prize of the Kenya Charity Sweepstakes, her name getting mentioned on the national radio and her image printed on future sweepstakes tickets.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I believe the amount they won was Kes.40,000.\u00a0 Such an amount\u00a0 was unthinkable <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">in the 1970s<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">.\u00a0 To put it in perspective, the monthly salary of a primary school teacher was less than Kes.1,000, and the highest Kenyan currency note was the Kes.100, which was very rare to come by.\u00a0 You can therefore imagine what Kes.40,000 must have felt like in the hands of this young couple that was just starting out in life. \u00a0 Anyhow, Tom and Joyce put their windfall money into very good use, a decision that set their young lives onto an entirely different trajectory.\u00a0 They<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> purchased a piece of land and constructed a house where they settled, and Tom expanded his tailoring business.\u00a0 Tom and Joyce were both very active in the local Catholic Church with Tom being a Catechist, a role he plays to this date.\u00a0 Unfortunately Joyce did not get to enjoy their new home for long, passing away at a very young age, probably in her late 20s, leaving Tom with their very young children.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Mwangi Kiraba:<\/strong>\u00a0 There was a huge well stocked clothes shop owned by a Mwangi Kiraba, a very serious looking man, he reminded us of our father.\u00a0\u00a0 His shop was on the Uhindi side of town, near Bhachu&#8217;s hardware. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Nyina wa Waithira:<\/strong>\u00a0 There was a lady named Wanjiku (Nyina wa Waithira) who sold second hand clothes (nguo cia munaara) in the market.\u00a0 The clothes were either hanging on the makeshift stall or in a huge pile on a tarp (kiandaruwa) that was spread out on the ground.\u00a0 It was the customers job to &#8220;dig&#8221; into the pile in search of what they needed.\u00a0 Nyina wa Waithira spent her day lying on some of the clothes she piled up for cushioning as she waited for customers.\u00a0 I envied her greatly, I thought she looked glamorous surrounded by beautiful merchandise of all colors.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">There were many other veterans who served the people of OlKalou in various ways and we owe them our gratitude.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Then there were the movers and shakers of OlKalou back in the day, with some still there currently running conglomerates that had their humble beginnings in the OlKalou of yester-years.\u00a0 Following are a few of them: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were some veterans of OlKalou town that everybody seemed to know or recognized. 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