When Ferdinand Waititu became Kiambu Governor he focused on investing in property in Nairobi City Centre and its peripheries.
How he got finances to buy two storey buildings in Nairobi city centre is debatable and this is said to have contributed to his impeachment and subsequent pursuit by anti-corruption body and court.
However, interesting is that Waititu does not consume alcohol but in one of his city buildings he operated a popular bar.
Fontaine Sports Bar was the name of his pub housed in his Delta House along University Way. The building is opposite Central Police Station.
It is also here he had a private office next to the calm bar then managed by his brother.
Fontaine was liked by the mature drinkers because of its controlled music, fair prices and favourable space for meeting friends, colleagues or business partners for a talk.
It attracted the middle-class partakers especially those working in the CBD and because it is tucked in a corridor, it offered privacy which is not the case with most pubs in the capital.
Waititu spent hundreds of millions of shillings in acquiring the building in 2018. The source of that money raised questions.
In a past interview he said he hated alcohol after he witnessed how their alcoholic father abandoned their mother who solely brought them up.
Before COVID-19, the 62-year-old Baba Yao was occasionally spotted there meeting friends and business counterparts but not any time drinking.
