?Unrecognised first wife of Mau Mau Field Marshall Mwariama

The late Mau Mau hero Field Marshall Musa Mwariama, with President Jomo Kenyatta.

The first wife of Mau Mau Field Marshall Musa Mwariama has spoken about the tribulations she and her husband went through during the struggle for independence.

Cionabea M’Kirikua Mwariama, 90, in an interview with the Sunday Standard, said she lost her eye after being tortured by British government soldiers when they raided their home in the 1950s looking for her husband who had joined freedom fighters in the Nyambene hills and Mt Kenya forests.