Goldenburg: Story of a whistleblower

Meshack Onyango Jamasai for lunch at the Nairobi Club.

Mr Jamasai, then a Deputy Director at the Central Bank, resembles a kindly uncle. With his large frame and small, warm, intelligent eyes behind round spectacles he looks like Eddie Murphy’s character Professor Klump in ‘The Nutty Professor.’

At the lunch, David Munyakei was very deferential towards Jamasai whose reaction to seeing his old friend was encapsulated in a question he posed to David: “Munyakei, my friend let me ask you: How did you manage to do the thing that you managed to do?” That query shows the esteem in which both men hold each other even after all these years. Munyakei blinked several times and after trying to utter a few words was silent, almost shy. Nothing more needed to be said.