This archive report was first published on 6 May 2020.
On Sunday, Mama Loise Wamaitha Kibuka, a 98-year-old community leader and mother of Dr Dan Kibuka Gikonyo, founder of the Karen Hospital, passed away at a Nairobi hospital.
President Uhuru Kenyatta has sent a message of condolence to her family, relatives, and friends, describing her as a woman of faith who was a pillar of her family and a source of inspiration to her community.
"Mama Wamaitha was a known and highly respected community leader and a wise counselor who was a source of encouragement and inspiration to many," the President said in his message of comfort.
He remembered her as a loving woman of God who highly cherished education as the foundation of success, as evident in her children's achievements.
President Kenyatta also acknowledged Mama Wamaitha's contribution to the country's development as a Maendeleo ya Wanawake leader in the 1950s, where she championed for the social and economic empowerment of indigenous Kenyans.
Her service to the country as a leader of Maendeleo ya Wanawake in Nyeri before independence will be remembered for generations to come, the President wrote.
He assured Mama Wamaitha's family of his support and prayed to God to grant them solace and fortitude at this difficult period of mourning their beloved matriarch.
