Catherine Kenyatta explains that all their land was bought thru bank loans

having acquired over 500,000 hectares.. at a conservative 10,000 per acre, President Kenyatta must have borrowed over 5billion shillings in 1964 (75billion by today's standards) to finance his land purchasing ambitions. Given a repayment period of 20 years and zero interest rate, the family must have been paying over 250million shillings (3.75billion) a year in loan repayments. Considering most of the land is idle to date, this must have been an easy feat