A story is told about founding father Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and his fear for crickets, the small insects that chirp all night long from their holes in the ground.
Now it emerges that apart from fearing them, the ageing president could as well not stand them even if they were in a place where they did not 'pose' any danger to him.
He demonstrated the same while in Embu one day, and while enjoying his night at a government guest house, a cricket suddenly began chirping.
The angry Kenyatta immediately called in Administration Police officers to spot the hole and deal with the insect, after which the officers embarked on the job.
Once found, the 'disturbing' insect was clubbed to death by the officers honouring 'orders from above', his Presidential Escort Commander Bernard Njinu told Nation's Kamau Ngotho.
In another of his hilarious actions, Kenyatta turned tables on Rift Valley Provincial Commissioner Isaiah Mathenge when the latter showed him a plot he had bought in Nakuru.
Upon showing him the plot located along the front row of a main street in the town and asked him if he would be interested in one, Kenyatta took it and told him to get another.
“Of course yes and, since you are the one who knows where to get the other plot, I will take this one as you get another one for yourself," Mathenge told Ngotho in 2017.