Leah Wangari Muriuki, who is a sister to Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, has passed away.
DP Gachagua announced the passing on of Wangari in a message on June 27, 2024, while expressing his sadness for the loss.
The second in command in his message mourned his sister as a family matriarch who has been taking care of the Gachagua family.
According to Rigathi, his sister who he identified as the eldest has been assuming a parental role as the family’s head following the death of their parents.
“I am saddened to receive news of the passing on of our eldest sister Leah Wangari Muriuki. Leah has been our mother and the family Matriarch; she has taken good care of the larger Gachagua Family after the death of our father and our two mothers,” said Gachagua.
“We are devastated by the loss of this family head. My deepest condolences to her husband, her children and grandchildren. May the Lord heal our Nation and families.”
DP Gachagua’s reaction after sister’s death
He further added that this is a very difficult week for him as a national leader and a family man following the loss.
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The deceased was the eldest among DP Gachagua’s family of nine siblings four brothers, and five sisters.
Earlier in the year, the DP had revealed about his family’s constitution while disclosing how he lost some of his siblings to alcoholism.
Rigathi said he was born in a family of nine siblings while speaking during an interview on Inooro TV back in March but highlighted that alcoholism had consumed all his brothers.
Gachagua on losing other siblings
According to him, one of his brothers who was practicing medicine in South Africa succumbed in 2012 after a long battle with alcoholism.
“My brother Dr Wachira Gachagua died of alcoholism He was practicing medicine in South Africa. He took too much of the spirits as his wife warned him to no avail. I went for his body in 2012 and buried him. In 2014 my brother Nderitu Gachagua died of resultant pancreatic cancer,” stated the DP.
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Further the DP divulged that a third brother identified as Reriani Gachagua was an alcoholic who never listened to him.
He said that his efforts of taking the brother to rehabilitation and even trying to live with him in his house were futile as he eventually succumbed to alcoholism.
“When I became deputy president in 2022, I was so happy that I gave him money to go and celebrate. He went into alcohol. He died,” DP Gachagua added.
The DP confessed that the loss of his siblings to alcoholism had made him a very lonely man in his father’s compound surrounded by graves brought about by alcohol.
While praising his spouse Pastor Dorcas Rigathi, the DP said he also had taken to alcohol consumption until she talked him out of it.
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