Perhaps not many know the story behind the multimillion shillings Muguku Farm located at Sigona in Kikuyu, Kiambu County.
The hatchery specializes in the production of day old commercial layer and broiler chicks.
But did you know the farm claims its roots to Jomo Kenyatta's love for eggs?
Well, it all started when then State House Comptroller Eliud Mathu decided to change the eggs supplier because he wanted to get into poultry business himself and be the one to supply eggs at State House.
However, when this was effected, Kenyatta was quick to notice that the new eggs were smaller and had the housekeeper explain why the size of the 'presidential eggs' had shrunk all over sudden.
The explanation, according to the Standard, was that the previous supplier had no government tender. Kenyatta would hear none of it.
With that Kenyatta's love for the now late Nelson Muguku's eggs gradually laid a foundation that was later to make a billionaire. According to Mutuku, there was no better customer to supply eggs to than State House where he was supplying two dozens weekly.
Previously, Muguku had been supplying colonial Governor Malcolm MacDonald before Jomo became President and he naturally continued doing so after Kenya attained independence in 1963.
And this is the year Muguku's wife quit teaching to concentrate on creating what is now Kenya's largest poultry farms, that started with two hens and a cock in 1956 at Kabianga Government School in Kericho, the paper notes.
MacDonald is said to have given Muguku the nod to supply State House, (then Government House), after visiting his farm, then at a settlement scheme in Sigona.
The governor considered the eggs better than those from England. Today, over 500,000 chicks are hatched daily at the farm.
Muguku had an Sh3-billion stake at Equity Bank and was the largest individual shareholder by the time of his death at 78 in 2010.
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