Former archbishop and long term serving Bishop of Nakuru Catholic Diocese, Raphael Ndingi Mwana a’Nzeki, soldiers on despite old age and a failing memory.
The retired archbishop now walking in a wheel chair lives a quiet life in his retirement home located in Lavington Nairobi. According to Joe Ngugi, a former Nakuru journalist whom together with a friend had visited the aging bishop, said that age and fading memory due to dementia, a condition which he was diagnosed with in 2014, has affected the once staunch priest.
“Bishop Ndingi is a fearless cleric with unrivaled intelligence and nerves of steel. I remember very well when he told off the then head of state who had arrived with his entourage, while the mass was going on at Christ The King Cathedral Church. Bishop Ndingi, disturb by the commotion caused by the head of state security, and without mincing words or batting his eyelids pointed out that it was a church and not a political meeting. The head of state had to do with a seat amidst the congregation,” Ngugi said.