This archive report was first published on 5 July 2019.
On a lighter note, a tribute to the late Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore has revealed that his tailor was way beyond their budget.
According to Peter Kenneth, a former presidential candidate, Collymore and he visited Ozwald Boateng's bespoke tailor shop, but couldn't afford the suits.
'I vividly remember one occasion, when he was fitting a new suit, he asked the tailor to sell the rest of us suits but the price was beyond our budgets. We politely told the tailor that we would return at a later date,' Kenneth reminisced in the tribute at All Saints Cathedral on July 5, 2019.
Collymore and Kenneth also stopped by a car showroom to check out a few vehicles, where Kenneth fell in love with a particular ride.
'On our way to dinner that evening, we stopped at a car showroom and I showed him what I thought was a nice car. That is when he vented out his frustration at our not buying suits from his favourite tailor, quipping that the car was worth an awful lot of suits. The next morning in Isuma, he Mpesad me Ksh 1,000 shillings as a start-up fund for buying the car,' Kenneth noted.
The tailor's good job was defended by the tribute also given by the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair.
Blair told the congregation that he personally knows Collymore's tailor.
'I know that tailor, the man (Peter Kenneth) spoke about, I actually did have a conversation with Bob about that tailor, I used that tailor, he is a great tailor,' Blair affirmed.
