Kambui: Where Mama Lucy Kibaki moulded Senator Beth Mugo

The late Mama Lucy and (right) Nominated senator Beth Mugo

Kambui Girls High School was once a teachers’ training college in Kambui, Githunguri, Kiambu County where it was established by Scottish missionaries in 1903 to give Africans formal education so that they could spread Christianity. Children were being taught in the morning, adults in the evening.

In 1914, the college started admitting girls and young women. It grew into a teachers’ training college and where the late former First Lady Lucy Kibaki taught P1 teachers. She had been transferred there  as a tutor in the late 1950s. She rose to be a principal and helped in moulding future teachers like nominated Senator Beth Mugo (1956-1957) and Nakuru County Woman Representative Njoki Mbugua.