Dagoretti

It straddles the Nairobi and Kiambu County boundary with the Dagoretti Road Reserve marking the psychological border point heading Northerly and North-Easterly.

A crowd of onlooking Kikuyus laughed at his pronunciation and spread the humourous news hence Dagoretti became the name of the area.

Some versions of this story mention Fredrick Lugard in relation to the land at Ndumbuini near Uthiru on which Fort Smith was built.

In August 1890, Fredrick Lugard departed Mombasa for Lake Victoria on behalf of the Imperial British East Africa Company.

Idris had already visited Dagoretti a few years earlier while serving on Count Sámuel Teleki's 1886 -1889 expedition to Lake Turkana.

[7] At Dagoretti Lugard was introduced to local leader and land owner Waiyaki wa Hinga with whom he formed an alliance by participating in a traditional blood brotherhood ceremony.

The main form of income is in industrial labor, construction, household chores, small scale trading on groceries, and careers in carpentry, masonry and tailoring.also middle class population working in nearby schools, hospitals and other government institutions.1886 -1889