The sons of an ailing and retired Kenya Defense Forces commander are embroiled in a legal tussle over his multi-million shilling estate with their step-mother, previously the family’s house help.
Major-General (Rtd) Duncan Kireri Wachira, the former commander of the Kenya Air Force for five years till 1994, has helplessly been following the unending wrangles- pitting his two sons from his first marriage and his second wife, Margret Wakonyo – from his hospital bed.
Wachira divorced his first wife, Ann Wanjiru, a former teacher at Pangani Girls School who left for the United States in 1997, leaving the retired soldier in the company of Wakonyo, the house help whose bride price he paid before their official wedding in church.
His bitter divorce with his first wife would overshadow all his success in the military where he had served for almost three decades.
Duncan Wachira passed on after a long illness.In October 2019, Kenyans.co.ke reported that Wachira had suffered a heart attack and had been taken to India for treatment.
A press statement by State House disclosed that Wachira died at his home in Nairobi.
