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The woes surrounding the late king of Benga's family played out last year when his daughter Jane Waithira lost her son Victor Nganga. The boy was named after De'Mathew but was denied a grave at the late singer's ancestral home where he is buried.
Waithira, an upcoming artiste, called on artistes who have sired children outside marriage to plan more for their children because "he who goes for a journey does not 'Muumagari ni wa njua igiri' (a person on a journey should be prepared for any eventuality).
"As an artiste, I learnt a lot after the death of my father, I was denied a place to bury my 14-year-old son and ended up burying him at my mother's ancestral home in Nyeri and this pained me because I have lived at Gatanga since I was a little girl and did not know any other place to call home," explained Waithira, popularly known as Jane De'Mathew. She said she was informed that her father had sold his ancestral land to one of his siblings.
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