Why General Mathenge's wife did not attend Mukami's burial

Muthoni Mathenge with one of her great-grand-daughters Wambui Mathenge. Her husband, General Mathenge refused to surrender. [File, Standard]

If only her leg would ease off a bit and the deadlocked grandmother could drive herself, she would have cruised from her pad in Mweiga, down to Ihururu along the winding Mau Mau Road up the crescent of Aberdares.

And then she would cruise for about 20 Kilometres past Ndunyu Njeru to Sasumuwa to give her last respects to a comrade in arms, Mukami Kimathi today as she is interred, not very far away from where her iconic husband Dedan KImathi bravely fought the colonial forces.