{"id":33719,"date":"2017-04-06T12:54:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T12:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/raila-mourns-margaret-wambui\/"},"modified":"2017-04-06T12:54:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T12:54:02","slug":"raila-mourns-margaret-wambui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/raila-mourns-margaret-wambui\/","title":{"rendered":"Raila mourns Margaret Wambui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{ODM leader Raila Odinga has mourned former Nairobi mayor Margaret Wambui, President Uhuru Kenyatta&#8217;s eldest sister, as a freedom fighter.}<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Mr Odinga said, \u201cAs a family, we have had a long history with Margaret and her family from her days as a freedom fighter, through her father, the late President Jomo Kenyatta\u2019s detention and her rise into a towering figure in Kenya\u2019s landscape who ended up being the first and only female Mayor of Nairobi,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms Wambui, he said, was adopted into the Jaramogi family during her father\u2019s detention, making her part of his extended family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the years, she remained a bridge between our two families. We knew her as a loving and deeply caring lady who towered over Kenya\u2019s landscape with humility and decency,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Odinga said that although she is gone, her place is preserved in Kenyan history. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Jaramogi\u2019s family, we stand with her family in prayer and wish them strength at this moment of loss. We also offer profound gratitude for all that she did for our country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19137 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mkenyatta.jpg\" alt=\"Margaret Wambui, President Uhuru Kenyatta&#039;s eldest sister, who died in Nairobi on April 5, 2017. \" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:Daily Nation <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{ODM leader Raila Odinga has mourned former Nairobi mayor Margaret Wambui, President Uhuru Kenyatta&#8217;s eldest sister, as a freedom fighter.} In a statement, Mr Odinga said, \u201cAs a family, we have had a long history with Margaret and her family from her days as a freedom fighter, through her father, the late President Jomo Kenyatta\u2019s [&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":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-33719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33719","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=33719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33719"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=33719"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=33719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}