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Meaning : Five Hundred Shillings
Use : Nadai jirongo tu = I only need five hundred shillings
Period: Early 90's
Related to: Currency, Money,
Synonyms: Punch


Area of origin : Unknown
Etymology:
The name was adopted from a local politician, Cyrus Jirongo, who was rumoured to have had a ring of producing fake 500 Shillings notes for circulation in the run up to the 1992 National Elections in Kenya.

 
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