Runyenje Wa Mukubo

On returning, he had won the confidence and trust of the Europeans owing to demonstrated ability and they installed him as a Chief.

One of his surviving sons Karanja (Kĩthu) recently showed family members the exact place where the Chief was laid to rest back in 1939 the year he died.

[3] In addition to his administrative duties, the Chief was an elder among his people and a committed family man.

The family ancestral land is largely within the Rũguca area near the Present day Runyenje's township which was earlier on known as Ngabũrĩ.

The land on which the current Embu East District Headquarters stands belonged to the Runyenje family as part of the larger Ega-Mataũ Rĩa Andũ a Njũkĩ clan although details of how the donation happened are available although family sources indicated that the Chief allowed the Government of the time (of which he was part) to set up the administrative station establishment on part of the family land.