Woman who left man after getting Mau Mau compensation renews marriage vows

Lawrence Kairianja, 83, and his 80-year-old wife Thaderinah Wanjiru outside their house in Mukurweini, Nyeri on September 11, 2015. Wanjiru has taken in her husband after allegedly kicking him out after she received Sh 400,000 as compensation from the British government. PHOTO: MOSE SAMMY/STANDARD

An elderly Nyeri couple that separated in February shortly after one of them was paid Sh400,000 by the British government has finally reunited.

Thaderinah Wanjiru, 80, who shocked the country after she parted ways with Lawrence Kairianja, her husband of 63 years, after receiving the Mau Mau compensation, has welcomed him back home and committed to live with him for the rest of her life.