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Late Dedan Kimathi's wife, Mukami is dead

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua when he visited Mukami Kimathi (right) in the hospital. [Rigathi, Twitter]

Mukami Kimathi, the wife of the late freedom fighter Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi, is dead.

Mukami died aged 96 while receiving treatment at a Nairobi hospital where she was admitted on Thursday night after developing breathing difficulties, according to her daughter Nyawira Kimathi.

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