Former head of civil service and businessman Jeremiah Gitau Kiereini, who passed on at the age of 90, reigned over the public and private sectors in a way that few Kenyans ever will.
At the peak of his powers during his tenure as head of civil service under the then President Daniel arap Moi, former Busia South MP Peter Okondo told Parliament that Mr Kiereini wielded so much power that he seemed like a Prime Minister yet he did not answer to the House.
