{"id":24907,"date":"2016-04-26T06:27:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T06:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/former-first-lady-lucy-kibaki-passes-on-after-a\/"},"modified":"2016-04-26T06:27:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T06:27:13","slug":"former-first-lady-lucy-kibaki-passes-on-after-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/former-first-lady-lucy-kibaki-passes-on-after-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Former First Lady Lucy Kibaki passes on after a long illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Former First Lady Lucy Kibaki has passed on while undergoing treatment at Bupa Cromwell Hospital in London where she had been admitted after a long illness.}<\/p>\n<p>Lucy was Saturday, April 23 transferred to the London hospital after a month-long stay at Nairobi Hospital. <\/p>\n<p>Her admission to Nairobi Hospital in March this year was termed by family spokesperson Ngari Gituku as a \u2018regular check-up due to her advanced age\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>The 75-year-old former First Lady has hardly been seen in public since her husband, Mwai Kibaki, left office.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2010 promulgation of the new Constitution, Lucy attended the historic event that was also graced by local and foreign dignitaries. <\/p>\n<p>She has since kept a low profile and was not even present when former President Kibaki handed over power to President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2013. <\/p>\n<p>Mama Lucy is known for being outspoken on family and national issues. Her close family, relatives and friends had maintained prolonged silence over her whereabouts.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11942 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mzklsre0ktkvavgn3571f2ad20e08f.jpg\" alt=\"Lucy Kibaki had been admitted to Nairobi Hospital for a month before being transferred to London \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Former First Lady Lucy Kibaki has passed on while undergoing treatment at Bupa Cromwell Hospital in London where she had been admitted after a long illness.} Lucy was Saturday, April 23 transferred to the London hospital after a month-long stay at Nairobi Hospital. Her admission to Nairobi Hospital in March this year was termed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[2599],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-24907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-standard-digital"],"bylines":[{"id":2599,"name":"Standard Digital","slug":"standard-digital","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2599,"name":"Standard Digital","slug":"standard-digital","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24907"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24907"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}