Mr Nicholas Muema (left) and Samuel Ndung’u work on Wambui Otieno’s grave on Sept 1, 2011. Photo/STEPHEN MUDIARI
“I, Wambui Otieno, hereby declare that I shall be laid to rest in this enclosed ground when I eventually die to guard this memorial to my late husband, SM Otieno even in death.”
This wish cast in concrete 22 years ago on the mausoleum of the prominent lawyer on their six-acre farm at Upper Matasia perhaps best captures the character of the 75-year-old former freedom fighter who died on Tuesday. (Read: Wambui had dug her grave 20 years ago)
