When the former assistant minister and Member of Parliament John Keen died about 18 months ago, the committee organising his funeral was in a big dilemma.
The committee did not know where to take the remains of the once powerful politician for requiem service.
Reason? Keen had never been to any church or identified with any religion.
The service had to be held at his Nairobi home and conducted by priests from various churches where members of his family fellowship.
Speaking to the writer of his biography Kamau Ngotho, the politician who passed on aged 90 had revealed why he disliked religion.
It was a picture where Jesus Christ and angels appeared looking like white men while the devil was put in black to look like an African.
He had seen the picture hanged in the walls of his classroom at his first school, the then Narok Government School when studying in 1930s.
"The impression was that Heaven was for the white people while the devil and Africans belonged in hell. That is what made me vow never to identify with any religion or church," he told Ngotho as the veteran journalist writes in his column in the Sunday Nation.
Keen, who died while undergoing treatment at a Nairobi hospital, had directed in his will to be buried by his agemates three days after passing on.
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