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Prior to falling ill in 2018, Nyachae's family included five wives and over 20 children. His wives were the late Esther
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for a diploma course in public administration. He became a district commissioner by
December 1963. Upon his arrival back in Kenya in 1964, he went back to provincial administration and began to steadily rise up the ranks within the provincial administration, ending up with a position as a provincial
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School, and in 1947, he joined the Kereri
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