BY MH Reporter
In 2008, radio personality Munene Nyaga decided to buy a small piece of land in Sabaki Estate somewhere along Mombasa Road.
Fifteen years later, Munene is a happy man – a contented man with a roof over his head.
“A friend questioned my decision to buy land in the middle of nowhere,” Munene told The Nation.
The home has eight bedrooms, a humongous living room, a magnificent bar, a glass house, some six bathrooms and of course a balcony that runs from Nairobi to Kisumu.
“I had many options, including taking up a mortgage, but the cost of mortgage is unbelievably high. I could have bought a house, but none looked exactly like what I wanted,” he told The Nation.
“I sketched the house. I was seated at a restaurant in town; eating fries and fish fingers and the idea occurred to me. Before I knew it, I had a sketch of my dream home. I wanted one with a common balcony,” he adds.
According to Munene, he started building the house with some Sh3 million being his savings.
Munene was a bachelor – and so many people wondered what he needed an eight-bedroom house for.
“What are you smoking, Munene?” Many would ask.
Today, the good journalist has enough roof over his head.