Former First Lady Mama Lucy Kibaki and wife to retired President Mwai Kibaki has apparently been admitted at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Nairobi Hospital, reports The Star.
The paper reports that Lucy was admitted on the night of Thursday, March 10, after falling ill at her home in Muthaiga, Nairobi.
The former First Lady is said to have been rushed to the Gertrude Children’s Hospital before being transferred to the Nairobi Hospital where she was immediately transferred to the ICU for special treatment.
“It is true that the wife of the former president is here. In fact, she has been taken to the ICU,” the paper quotes a source at Nairobi Hospital.
It is believed Lucy had difficulty in breathing at the time she fell sick.
The latest comes amid rumours that the former First Lady has been battling illness and that is why she has been out of the limelight for a long time.
In 2014, questions about her whereabouts lingered in the air with some saying she was too sick to appear in public.
But Lucy is known to be introverted, choosing to keep a low profile despite being a First Lady when her husband, Mwai Kibaki, was president for 10 years.
The last time she was really in the public limelight was in 2010 during the promulgation of the new constitution.
