A section of Narc coalition insiders plotted against former First Lady Lucy Kibaki, effectively blocking her from accessing her husband Mwai Kibaki.
With an intention of frustrating Raila Odinga's push to be Prime Minister in 2003, the group led by former State House Comptroller Matere Keriri believed that Raila's team would use Lucy to manipulate Kibaki.
President Mwai Kibaki had that time rejected an MoU signed earlier with Kibaki's team which would have seem him share power in government.
And in a sensational claim, Matere, 85, alleges that after Kibaki loyalists scuttled the implementation of the MoU, ‘the Narc renegades led by Raila set up former First Lady the late Lucy Kibaki against me.
’"When Kibaki took over power, he was sick and susceptible to manipulation by those who wanted to benefit from his presidency. On learning very fast the game that the clique led by Raila had started, we developed some measures to keep them away from Kibaki after he declined to honour the MOU," Matere says.
Matere says they blocked Lucy from seeing Kibaki "to give him adequate time to recover and steer the country."
He refuses to elaborate further, only saying that Lucy had kept away from the campaigns and only resurfaced after Kibaki was declared the winner.
"Before the campaigns, Lucy was nowhere to be seen. However, she turned up at a time when some members of the Summit had started waging a war against those opposed to the MoU. It was viewed that the disgruntled members would use her (Lucy) to advance their agitation," Matere says, justifying his decision to block Lucy from seeing her husband.
"Lucy in turn developed a lot of hatred towards me for standing my ground that only those with genuine reasons could access the president," he says.
According to him, despite managing to block Lucy and Raila's team, he would later on turn victim when the former First Lady Lucy Kibaki realised.
"By the time I left State House my relationship with her had gone from worse to worst and she did not even wish to see my face," Matere adds.