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Why Field Marshal Muthoni Kirima did not attend Mukami's burial

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Field Marshal Muthoni Kirima. [Mose Sammy, 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 have cruised for about 20 Kilometres past Ndunyu Njeru to Sasumuwa to give her last respects to a comrade in arms, Mukami Kimathi as she was interred, not very far away from where her iconic husband Dedan KImathi bravely fought the colonial forces.

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