First Lady. Photo[PSCU]
First Lady Margaret Kenyatta won the hearts of many women in West Pokot when she made a surprise visit to a rural village in Kapenguria where she freely mingled with excited mothers before she rolled out a mosquito-net distribution exercise.
She also surprised the women from Katumok village in Mnagei Ward when she joined them in a physical exercise of shelling maize -an activity she participated in with relish as the women inundated her with praise songs for her noble works of helping mothers and children countrywide.
The mothers and their babies, gathered at the homestead of their host, Joseph Machario and his wife Angelina Machario , described the First Lady as a wonderful down-to-earth mother.
“Huyu ni mama wa ajabu. Asante Kwa Mungu (This is a wonderful woman. Thanks to God for her”, said Mrs Machario in supplication to God for giving the country a humble First Lady.
The First Lady then ventured into the house of Machario’s son Abraham Ngetuka and his 20-year old wife Naomi Cheptum, a mother of two, where she installed a mosquito-net to protect the mother and her children as the unbelieving mothers danced with joy outside the immaculate hut.
Her experience inside the mud-grass thatched hut brought out the First Lady’s best personality to reinforce her concerns for mothers and children when she committed herself to put up two improved iron-sheet roofed houses for the family.
The installation of the net at Ngetuka’s home marked the beginning of mosquito nets distribution exercise in the region which continued at the Kishaunet ASK showground, Kapenguria, where the First Lady latter addressed hundreds of women from West Pokot, Baringo, Uasin Gishu, Trans-Nzoia , Elgeyo Marakwet , Nandi and Turkana.
After the meeting at the showground, the First Lady made another surprise move at Makutano trading centre where she stopped her motorcade to acknowledge greetings from excited residents whom she requested to vote for President Kenyatta during the repeat presidential polls on October 17.
“I ask you to come out in large numbers and elect my husband as President on October 17”, pleaded the First Lady.