Controversy over vehicles and government wastage is not a recent phenomenon after all. The first debate over the cost of a vehicle raged way back in 1966 when the Nairobi City Council sought to purchase a 4-litre Rolls Royce princess for the mayor. Robert Nagila traces its history and how the council finally got to buy a Rolls Royce similar to that of the Sultan of Brunei who owns about five thousand.

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