Ngina Kenyatta, former First Lady and mother to President Uhuru Kenyatta was a young lass at the time she married founding father Jomo Kenyatta, who was already in his 70s.
Having been sought from the village, Ngina was a simple and rural lady who despite the exposure that came with the 'First Lady' tag, couldn't immediately adopt.
Consequently, she almost became an embarrassment to the Head of State who according to Dan Ndegwa in his memoirs 'Walking in Kenyatta's Struggles: My Story', was a party guy.
According to the 2009 memoir, the parties and balls were held at the Nairobi State House and attended by among others, Kenyatta's cabinet, but Ngina's dressing was embarrassing to the President.
Therefore, he sought the help of Nyiva Mwendwa, then the wife of Chief Justice Kitili Mwendwa who was already in the know on how to rock Calico dresses and hold wine glasses.
She would spend hours in the presidential palace to dress Ngina ahead of every event, well, until the latter became used to the new lifestyle, reports the Standard.
Some of the Cabinet Ministers opted for the easy route, marrying second wives, younger, better and educated ladies who would not give them trouble and embarrassments.
This is with the consideration that most of them got married before the fame, motorcades and foreign trips, and their wives were natives of the interior of Kenya where any dress is enough to get things going.
Those who decided to stick to their spouses stole Kenyatta's idea, and deployed more polished women to sandpaper their wives into their preferred images.
Nyiva would with time make a debut in the cabinet to become the nation's first female Cabinet Minister.
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