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6 years on: Remembering former First Lady Lucy Kibaki
Today marks six years since the death of former First Lady Lucy Kibaki.
Incidentally, her husband, Kenya's third President Mwai Kibaki would pass on almost six years later. The body of Kibaki is currently lying in state at Parliament buildings following his death last Friday.
The former head-of-state will be accorded a national state funeral with full military honours and protocols at Nyayo National Stadium on Friday.
Kibaki will thereafter on Saturday be buried next to his wife Mama Lucy Kibaki at his Othaya home.
I never bothered to study the history of Kenya’s second First Lady until I sat down to do this story.
An interesting fact I soon found out is that we share the same birth month and day.
This iron lady was born Lucy Muthoni Kagai on January 13 in in Mukurwe-ini, Nyeri County.
She was born to Rose Nyachomba and John Kagai who was a pastor of the Presbyterian Church of East Africa in Nyeri’s Muhito Parish.
Ostensibly a bright student, Mama Lucy studied at Alliance Girls High School where she would embark on a teaching career.
The young Lucy would teach at Kamwenja Teachers’ College before being transferred to Kambui College (now Kambui Girls) where she would meet a budd
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Lucy Kibaki
First Lady of Kenya (–)
Her Excellency Lucy Kibaki | |
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| In role 30 December &#;– 9 April | |
| President | Emilio Mwai Kibaki |
| Preceded by | Lena Moi |
| Succeeded by | Margaret Kenyatta |
| In role 14 October &#;– 24 March | |
| Vice President | Emilio Mwai Kibaki |
| Preceded by | Lena Moi |
| Succeeded by | Margaret Wanjiru Gakuo |
| Born | Lucy Muthoni ()13 January Mukurwe-ini, Kenya Colony |
| Died | 26 April () (aged&#;80) Bupa Cromwell Hospital, London |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 4 |
| Residence(s) | Nairobi, Kenya |
Lucy Muthoni Kibaki (13 January – 26 April )[1] was the wife of former Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and was the third First Lady of Kenya from to
Biography
[edit]Lucy Muthoni was born in Her parents were Rev. John Kagai, a pastor of the Presbyterian Church of East Africa and Rose Nyachomba, in Mukurwe-ini, Nyeri County, (formerly Nyeri District in Central Province), Kenya.[2] She was educated at Alliance Girls High School,[3] then trained as a teacher, working first at Kamwenja Teachers College and later at Kambui College in Kiambu, where she rose to the post of principal.[2]
She met Emilio Mwai Kibaki in After a two-year romance, they married in , with Lucy quitting her teaching career
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Kenya's former premier lady Lucy Kibaki dies in London
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Security officials seized the picture images mushroom erased say publicly slapping bang, before reversive them.