{"id":106226,"date":"2024-12-25T17:03:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T17:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/mau-mau-veteran-agnes-muthoni-passes-on\/"},"modified":"2024-12-25T17:03:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T17:03:44","slug":"mau-mau-veteran-agnes-muthoni-passes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/mau-mau-veteran-agnes-muthoni-passes-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Mau Mau veteran Agnes Muthoni passes on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mau Mau fighter Agnes Muthoni Kinyua, alias Major Gachefu of the Heka Heka Battalion, has passed away. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She died on Christmas Eve at around 7:00 p.m. while receiving treatment at Charity Medical Center in Nyahururu.<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1936, Major Gachefu was the wife of the late Elijah Kinyua, alias General Bahati, who fought alongside her in the Shamata War in Aberdare Sub-County, Nyandarua County, during the struggle against colonial rule around Mt. Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Her daughter, Nancy Kinyua, confirmed the news, revealing that her mother had been in and out of the hospital in recent times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reporting by Lydia Mwangi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/kbc.co.ke\/mau-mau-veteran-agnes-muthoni-passes-on\/\">Mau Mau veteran Agnes Muthoni passes on<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mau Mau fighter Agnes Muthoni Kinyua, alias Major Gachefu of the Heka Heka Battalion, has passed away. She died on Christmas Eve at around 7:00 p.m. while receiving treatment at Charity Medical Center in Nyahururu. Born in 1936, Major Gachefu was the wife of the late Elijah Kinyua, alias General Bahati, who fought alongside her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}