A well-known Kikuyu family gave birth to Virginia Edith Wambui Otieno, a notable activist, politician, and writer in Kenya. Due to a contentious legal dispute over Silvano Melea Otieno’s right to burial with the clan of her Luo husband, Wambui rose to fame in 1987. In the framework of an inter-tribal union, a disagreement between common law and customary law in Kenya arose.

When she wed Peter Mbugua in 2003, the entire country was indignant. Numerous members of their family were against the union. Mbugua’s mother died a few days after the wedding, and some have hypothesized that the agony she felt at hearing of the union was ultimately what caused it.

Living in Karen, Nairobi, in 2008, she shared a home with a stonemason.

In place of the civil ceremony they had utilized for their initial union, they had their second wedding at Nairobi’s St. Andrew’s Church in February 2011.

In her will, Wambui named her two daughters, Gladwell Otieno and Rosalyn Otieno, as her personal agents to manage what was left after she distributed the majority of her belongings, including her properties, to her children and grandkids. Peter Mbugua filed a lawsuit in 2013, making a similar claim to the one made in 1987: Wambui lacked the mental capacity to create a written will.

Wambui’s Karen home, where the pair lived for a period of years following their widely publicized wedding in 2003, is off-limits to Mr. Mbugua, who left a young fiancée behind to marry Mrs. Otieno.

Furthermore, he would be viewed as a “intruder” at Wambui’s distant home in Upper Matasia, Ngong, where she was laid to rest. According to SM Otieno’s “wishes,” Wambui had made preparations for his burial at this home in 1987.