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Ex-freedom fighter Waigwa Muriuki during the interview at his home in Ngaaini colonial village in Mathira constituency, Nyeri county on October 13, 2022. [File, Standard]
The relatives of a freedom fighter have been forced to look for alternative land to bury their family matriarch after the State denied them a burial permit at her colonial village where she has lived all her life.
Jane Gathoni, 96, was among the few Mau Mau freedom fighters who were left at Ngaaini colonial village in Mathira, Nyeri County, post-independence as she had nowhere to go.
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