Kenya's first president, Jomo Kenyatta is famous for his fight for liberation as well as authoring several books, including the famous 'Facing Mount Kenya'.
However, Bildad Kaggia in his book The struggle of Freedom and Justice disclosed otherwise.
Kagia mentioned that one day Kenyatta received a copy of Facing Mount Kenya, a book that he had supposedly written.
However, on receiving the book, Kenyatta disclosed he had never read the book, to the surprise of General China and Paul Ngei.
The three silently knew that the book was written by a British lady but were in shock when Kenyatta openly let the cat out of the bag, by admitting he had never read the book.
Later, on the realization of his accidental revelation, he became furious claiming that he definitely read the book while he was writing it.
From then henceforth, Kenyatta was never comfortable when Kagia brought up the subject of authorship of the book.
"Kenyatta would always get very annoyed when we raised the issue of authorship of Facing Mount Kenya and how a person with his writing skills could have written this book," Kaggia narrated.
Frequent arguments between Ngei and Jomo Kenyatta would regularly end with Ngei reminding him that he had been merely a farm laborer in England as opposed to what Jomo had wanted them to believe.
Squabbles between the two resulted in Kenyatta and Waruhiu Itote snitching to the District Officer (DO) that Ngei was teaching politics to the Turkana Askaris.
Ngei ended up paying for his sins by spending four weeks in a small isolated cell in prison.
