User:Mwarania/sandbox

§Mwarania (talk) 01:13, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

john ngura was born in 1937 at Gikondi location,mukurweiini division nyeri district at a village called mbari ya ngura.his father was called ngunungu ndere and mother esther njeri also know as wakamau.his brothers were philip ndere,francis kamau and the only sister called wamuyu wandaka. he attended ccm gikondi primary school which was run by catholic missionary between 1950 to 1954 and dropped out due to prevailing political problem of the time,there village was rounded up by home guards and taken to muthuthini colonial village. he went to nairobi where he was employed as a tea boy by a mr charles ndegwa in 1956 bt was deported back to the village by colonial administration for the lack of identification,kipade.he was initiated together with his agemates and after few years he went back to nairobi to start his own bussines. in 1960 he married mary njeri nyanji and were blessed with six children namely john baptista maina.grace wagikondi,charles nyanji,lucy wangui,nancy muthoni and hana wakarindi he started his bussines at ngara near kariakor and as his tea kiosk was located near the stage of gikondi buses most of the new arrival used to get direction of their destination from his kiosk.he employed many young people and afterwards helped them to train as mechanic to be self reliance. together with others they started ngura and ituu housing company which bought some building in various part of nairobi.he was the chairman of nairobi street traders,ngara muchokanirira and also long time chairman of his mbari ya ngura clan in nairobi.together with others they contributed alot money and resources to start kariara primary school and in 1985 he contributed his land to start ngura primary school which was an envy of others villages who soon after they started the same projects.his vision helped many school going children as they used to walk long distance to the nearest school and improved the education standard of the village,other elders who were instrumental in raising the leaving standard of mbari ya ngura were wamui munyaka,charles ndegwa kiogothi,kimotho wamui,waithaka mwaniki, stephen wambugu maina,james waithaka kamuiru,francis gitonga gatibi,philip ndere ngunungu,waithaka kamuiru alia gathumbi joseph kihara ngura charles kamiri kirenge kinya among others.mr john ngura died on november 2003 but his vision and dreams leave, .