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Meet the Gakuo family that gave Kenya her third First Lady - Margaret Kenyatta

President Daniel Arap Moi attends the wedding ceremony of Uhuru Kenyatta and Margaret Gakuo at Holy Family Basilica in Nairobi in December 1989. [File, Standard]

Dr Njuguna Gakuo, father of First Lady Margaret Gakuo Kenyatta, was the first African managing director of Kenya Railways after taking over from GPG Mackay in 1964.

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