Senate Speaker Amason Kingi’s father is set to be buried today (Friday) in the remote village of Kamale in Magarini sub county of Kilifi County .
President William Ruto is set to be the chief Guest in the ceremony to condole with the speaker whose life is what can be described as from grass to grace having lived in a remote village full of hardship and constant shifta attacks.
During the memorial service held at Kamale village where Kingi grew up on Thursday he emotionally revealed how he grew up as a village boy in poverty where even taking bath was a non issue due to water shortages in his village.
While eulogizing his father Kingi Mwarua the Speaker revealed how they would get out of school at four pm to go and search for water in dry shallow wells the whole night and return home in the morning to go to school while wearing tattered clothes and without taking a bath.
He said his childhood life was filled with poverty with him taking only one meal a day but due to his father’s struggles they were hardened and worked hard to succeed in life.
To him his father’s dream was to see his children get proper education regardless of the high poverty level and did all kinds of illegal businesses to get money including hunting, selling water among others.
He said his father’s death was not only a loss to the family but the entire Community in Kamale as he was a man with a vision to see great transformation in the area that was once regarded as remote.
Present during the memorial service was Kilifi Governor Gideon Mung’aro, Deputy Majority Leader of Parliament and Kilifi North MP Owen Baya, Senate Minority leader Stewart Madzayo, Ganze MP Ken Kazungu among other leaders who all euologised the late speaker’s father as an icon who despite all odds managed to educate his children.
Mung’aro who is Kingi’s cousin from the Amamkweha clan of the Mijikenda told Kingi to take the mantle and lead the family in the footpaths of the late father.
Madzayo said the speaker’s father played a key role in bringing up children well by ensuring they got proper education.
Baya and Kazungu describe their success as having been contributed by the speaker who nurtured them to be who they are today.
