Folk wisdom has it that everyone has a doppelganger, somewhere out there there’s a perfect duplicate of you, with your mother’s eyes, your father’s nose and that annoying mole you’ve always meant to have removed. Well, we bumped into a Kenyan and a Ugandan that have a striking resemblance with retired President Mwai Kibaki and they are perceived to be his relatives. Your face: it’s so tangled up with your identity, soon it may be all you need to unlock your smartphone, access your office or buy a house.
It’s on your passport and it’s how criminals are identified in a line-up. It’s how you’re recognised by old friends on the street, even after years apart, this, therefore, gives the assurance that your looks are unique. And then, one day your illusions are smashed.
So one of the Kenyan has been trending on social media with claims he is searching for his father who is a Kenyan. Kenyans claimed Kibaki is his father but it has since been established he is indeed Kabaka Mutebi, a Buganda King in Uganda but his semblance with Kibaki stuns.
The other man is Harun Githongo from Kigumo, Murang’a County who says has severally been mistaken for Baba Jimmy. He says people do not believe he is not Kibaki’s relative.
Githongo says he draws a lot of attention and one time in Naivasha town a senior government
Well, have you met your doppelganger by any chance?