Lucy Muthoni Kibaki (13 January 1936 – 26 April 2016) was the wife of former

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Mwai Kibaki Emilio Stanley Mwai Kibaki (15 November 1931 – 21 April 2022) was a Kenyan politician who served as the third President of Kenya from December 2002 until April 2013 and is regarded as one of Kenya's founding fathers. He had previously ser ...

and was

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from 2002 to 2013.

Biography

Lucy Muthoni was born in 1936. Her parents were Rev. John Kagai, a pastor of the

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and Rose Nyachomba, in Mukurwe-ini,

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, (formerly Nyeri District in Central Province),

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. She was educated at

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, then trained as a teacher, working first at Kamwenja Teachers College and later at Kambui College in

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, where she rose to the post of principal. She met

in 1959. After a two-year romance, they married in 1961, with Lucy quitting her teaching career in 1963. They had four children: Judy Wanjiku, Jimmy Kibaki, David Kagai and

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. She was a grandmother to Mwai Kibaki jnr

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, and others. Kibaki was a patron of the

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First Lady assures KGGA of support
Lucy Kibaki died on 26 April 2016 at Bupa Cromwell Hospital in London, after brief hospitalization at the Nairobi Hospital for chest pains. She was 80.

Charitable work

Lucy was known for supporting disadvantaged and disabled people. She chaired the Organization of the 40 African First Ladies Against

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References

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