This archive report was first published on 14 July 2019.
On Saturday, Kirinyaga Governor Anne Mumbi Kamotho married Nairobi-based lawyer Kamotho Waiganjo in a traditional wedding ceremony at Kiamugumo Primary School in Gichugu Constituency, her rural home.
The ceremony, known as Ngurario in the Agikuyu community, was attended by over 2000 people, including President Uhuru Kenyatta, Nasa principals Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka, and several Cabinet secretaries.
The event was under the guidance of a Kikuyu tradition counsellor, Mr Kimani Murugami, who explained that the traditional wedding is the final stage of a marriage within the community.
After solemnising the couple's relationship, Mr Murugami forced them to vow that 'they will never divorce or separate.'
The governor and her new husband were later blessed by their parents using Agikuyu traditional brew known as Muratina.
As part of the ceremony, the governor served the lawyer with a traditionally-prepared sour porridge using a calabash to show her submissiveness and humility to the newly-wed husband.
However, the guests were left in stitches after Mr Waiganjo showed his pride and authority as an Agikuyu man by first declining to take porridge on grounds that the wife had not washed his hands and that the porridge was sugarless.
