Kenyatta noted that Lucy will be remembered for her immense contribution in the development of our country. The year-old was known for being vocal and often expressed her dissatisfaction both on private and public issues. Lucy Kibaki was an extraordinary woman with remarkable strength of character, a gracious First Lady, proud mother, a devoted wife.
Welcome to Africanews Please select your experience. She also went to the local police station in shorts to demand that Mr Diop and his guests be arrested for disturbing the peace. Later, she burst into the offices of the influential Nation Media Group with her bodyguards and demanded that the reporter who had written about her confrontation with Mr Diop be arrested.
She slapped cameraman Clifford Derrick who was filming her and refused to leave the offices until the next day. He tried to sue for assault, but the case was thrown out of court. Security officials seized the video images and erased the slapping incident, before returning them. Kenya country profile. She was the most outspoken First Lady on the continent. She had no qualms giving the impression that she was Deputy President or perhaps a co-President.
If President Kibaki was uncomfortable with her conduct, he lacked the power or the courage to say so, or show his displeasure. There were rumours that Lucy Kibaki was a husband batterer.
She also on many occasions, went overboard in trying to take charge of the government. She humiliated diplomats, government officials, State House staff, her own husband, members of the coalition government, and just about anyone who crossed her path.
Soon after Mwai Kibaki assumed office, the brand new First Lady began to show her true colours by ordering that a bar inside State House, where Ministers and other government officials often tried to have fun should be shut down and that instead of spending time drinking, the Ministers should go and work for the people of Kenya!
Without reference to the President, she gave him an ultimatum to resign or be sacked. Keriri had to go. She kept an informal, secret network whose assignment was to report on Cabinet Members. She summoned officials and gave them instructions as to what was expected of them as if she was their boss. They knew better, they would not dare disobey her. But if you had, she would tell you to your face.
She would correct you but she would follow up to see if things had been corrected. George Satoiti, former Internal Security Minister during the Sachangwan oil tanker fire tragedy will not contest that either. He was on that occasion publicly tongue-lashed by Mama Lucy for making insensitive comments, not showing enough empathy over an accident that led to the death of over and many more injured. When at a public event, a State House official introduced Lucy Kibaki with a wrong name, calling her Mary Wambui, the rumoured hidden wife of her husband, the fellow got a dirty slap, delivered promptly and ferociously.
When the former Vice President, Moody Awori, also had a tongue slip and called her a second lady, a veiled reference again to the existence of Mary Wambui, also known as Wambui ma Mwai , Lucy Kibaki did not hide her discomfiture.
She stood up and walked out of the State Luncheon. She stood beside him, growling like a headmistress with a cane in hand. She later grabbed the microphone and abused journalists who did not like her and her family and were always writing nonsense stories. While she largely stayed out of the limelight, Kibaki made international headlines in May after an incident involving Kenya's largest daily newspaper.
She stormed the Daily Nation's Nairobi headquarters at night, along with her security detail, to complain about allegedly biased coverage. Footage from the encounter showed her slapping a cameraman who was taping the incident.
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