Jomo Kenyatta's nurse recalls good times with high and mighty

Margaret Gacigi Gecaga in her ling room. (Courtesy)

She lives in Old Muthaiga, opposite the Hungarian and Danish embassy residencies, a stone’s throw away from the home of former Attorney General Charles Njonjo, shares a fence with Udi Gecaga, one of the youngest super executives in Jomo Kenyatta’s era and she is barely a hundred metres from the home of the US ambassador. But the address is all she has in common with the big shots.

She has had a few firsts in her life, including being among the first African nurses in Kenya, nursing the elder President Kenyatta when he suffered the first attack. She also married one of Kenya’s richest men. However her current condition tells a different story.