It has emrged that the last born of the late Kijana Wamalwa, Kenya’s former Vice President, could drop out of college due to lack of fees, barely a year after her mother’s death.
The shortage of cash is due to the numerous court tussles that led to the freezing of Wamalwa’s benefits in bank accounts, besides misuse of funds and caveats placed on properties including the house in Karen where Chichi and Derek Mboya live. Kenyans remember Chichi as the young flower girl during the 2003 wedding between Yvonne Nambia and Kijana Wamalwa and presided over by Kitale Catholic Bishop Maurice Crowley and attended by then President Mwai Kibaki, First Lady Mama Lucy Kibaki, Raila Odinga and the entire Narc Cabinet.
Last year, during Yvonne Wamalwa’s burial ceremony, Deputy President William Ruto promised to help the late Vice President’s children to complete their education, a promise that has so far not been kept.
Chichi claims that her mother, Yvonne, was broke at the time of her death from cancer and was unable to access health insurance and her own pension. Yvonne Wamalwa died in January 2018 in Nanyuki and was buried in Kitale, next to the former Vice President. It was atthis funeral where the Deputy President made the promise. Why make a promise you can not fulfill?