Who is Yvonne Wamalwa?

Yvonne Wamalwa, the widow to the late former Vice President Michael Kijana Wamalwa, is dead.

Mrs Wamalwa died in Nanyuki, according to an undisclosed family source.

She is said to have died at her sister's home on Thursday morning, even as the family makes arrangements to airlift her body to the Lee Funeral Home in Nairobi.

The cause of her death is yet to be established.

Below is what you did not know about her:

1. After the death of her husband in 2003, former President Mwai Kibaki appointed her as the Deputy Permanent Representative of Kenya to the United Nations Habitat offices in Nairobi.

2. She was later appointed as the Deputy High Commissioner of Kenya to Australia.

3. She had two children with Kijana, Derrick Mboya, and Michelle Chichi.

4. Between 2008 and 2011, she graduated from the Murdoch University with a degree in Terrorism, Counter Terrorism and Extremism.

5. She enrolled for a Masters in Policing, Terrorism, Counter terrorism and International Security at the Macquarie University in Australia.

6. Her original training was in Hotel Management and Tourism.

7. She wanted a doctoral degree in international security and counter terrorism to help Kenya in security matters.

8. She was the second born in a family of four: 3 girls and 1 boy.

9. She grew up in Nairobi's Parklands area before moving to Kileleshwa.

10. She attended City primary school and Cardinal Otunga Girls High School in Bungoma.

11. She went to Kenya Polytechnic now Technical University of Kenya, and then moved to West London College where she studied Hotel Management and Tourism in 1994.

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