Gachagua's Demand To Mama Ngina Who Settled Widow's Ksh4.7M Debt

Gachagua alleged that the Kenyatta family had failed to compensate the Mau Mau fighters for 63 years.

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Apr 21, 2023 - 13:13 Updated: Apr 21, 2023 - 13:15
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Gachagua's Demand To Mama Ngina Who Settled Widow's Ksh4.7M Debt
Side by side image of Mama Ngina (left) and Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua (right). /VIRALTEAKE

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on Friday, April 21 challenged former President Uhuru Kenyatta's mother, Mama Ngina, to surrender part of the Kenyatta family land to Mau Mau fighters living in hardships, including himself.

While speaking during a meeting with Nyeri members of the county assembly, Gachagua alleged that the Kenyatta family had failed to compensate the Mau Mau fighters for 63 years.

He however lauded Mama Ngina's efforts in clearing a Ksh 4.7 million bank loan for Mau Mau veteran Field Marshall Muthomi Kirima on Thursday, April 20, when Kirima visited the First Lady of Kenya’s founding father Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, to express gratitude to her and her family for the kindness they have extended to her in recent years.

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua during a meeting with Nyeri leaders on Friday, April 21, 2023. /FACEBOOK.RIGATHI GACHAGUA

"I am happy to see people yesterday say how they'll help the Mau Mau fighters. Even though they have not been present for 63 years. They are not late, they should help us now," Gachagua stated.

The DP in his view thought that it was the right time for the wrongs committed against the Mau Mau fighters and their families to be resolved, though he accused the Kenyatta family of stealing land which was meant for the group which spearheaded Kenya's fight for independence.

"All we want is for them to part with at least 50 per cent of the land and give it to sons and daughters of Mau Mau fighters including myself.

"They took all the land belonging to Mau Mau and nothing is being done on the land while the sons and daughters of Mau Mau fighters are being buried in public cemeteries," he stated.

The DP also offered to help the former first family distribute the land to the thousands of family members of freedom fighters, claiming that the Kenyatta family did not need the tracts of land they owned, which were big enough.

"Any help for Mau Mau is not late, we waited for 63 years and we are still waiting," he remarked.

During the visit, Mama Ngina bought Kirima a three-bedroomed house. As a show of gratitude for clearing her bank loan, the widow responded by gifting Mama Ngina four goats, two mature and two young, a portrait painting, traditional trays, and fresh farm produce to the former first lady.

Kirima also thanked Mama Ngina for accepting to travel to Nyeri on April 1, 2022, to shave her dreadlocks, which she has since donated to the Museum of Kenya.

Muthoni cited that the act of cutting her hair symbolized the end of the struggles Kenya underwent under colonial rule and that the era of fighting for freedom was now behind.

During the occasion which took place at Mama Ngina’s Muthaiga home, the Field Marshal was accompanied by over a dozen members of her immediate family and a handful of Kikuyu elders.

"Now you see for yourself the people who were in the forest fighting for this country because nowadays people pretend to know a lot. We have done a lot for this country," stated the former First Lady in a thinly-veiled attack on Gachagua.

Field Marshall Muthomi Karimi (seated, left) and Mama Ngina Kenyatta (seated, right) addressing the media at the Kenyatta residence in Muthaiga on April 20, 2023. /FACEBOOK

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