Dressed to the nines, the slim man is as closely shaven as a golf course – a sport he particularly enjoys. Very little is in the public sphere about the discreet Ndegwa, apart from the fact that he regularly spends his holidays on the coast of Watamu (about 100 km north of Mombasa), and that he likes to walk on the white sand of Mauritius.
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