Story of Wamuyu wa Murage Who Dated Former Ugandan President Idi Amin

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Former President Uhuru's motorcade heading to the Tanzanian High Commission in Muthaiga, Nairobi on Saturday, March 20, 2021
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Details have emerged that former Ugandan President Idi Amin Dada once dated a Nyeri woman, Wamuyu wa Murage, who he ran away with to Uganda and the lady was never heard from again.

After returning from World War 2, Amin was deployed as a police constable in Mathira which is in Nyeri County. While operating at the Kiamachimbi Police Station, he had a fling with the young woman despite objections from her family.

Duncan Kaguithia who is Wamuyu’s nephew narrated that the relationship started in 1954 when Kenya was in a state of emergency and they did not know whether his aunt was with Amin out of fear or if she truly loved him.

When he moved from the area, he left with the young Wamuyu and up to date the family has not heard from their daughter.

Their attempts to find out about her whereabouts were not successful since they were not financially capable. They did not even have a photograph that they could have used to track their missing kin.

Kaguithia who is now 72, explained that back then, they feared the police due to their brutality towards peasants.

He explained that for that reason, they did not question Wamuyu who was the last born in a family of six when she decided to elope with the police officer

“Illiteracy and fear of authorities hindered the family from asking questions. We didn’t have anybody to guide us and today, her two sisters who are alive have no clear memory of her,” he says.

The family got desperate and would watch out for their daughter during Idi Amin’s public events after he became the President of Uganda but they never saw her.

Wamuyu’s parents and sisters passed away heartbroken without knowing what really happened to her, whether she was dead or alive.

Idi Amin was a polygamist and is believed to have married at least six women, three of whom he divorced. It is not clear how many children he had though historians estimate he had fathered between 30 to 45 children.

[caption caption="Idi Amin and his fifth wife Sarah Kyolaba"][/caption]

 

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