“I’m so happy being here and I’m so proud to have my own home now,” Macharia said on Sunday at a handover ceremony in Nakuru
A two bedroomed house which was donated as a gift by President Uhuru Kenyatta but rejected by a Nakuru woman and her son has been handed over to a new beneficiary Charles Macharia. The house was handed over to him by Rift Valley Regional coordinator Mongo Chimanga on behalf of the government. The house was built on Uhuru’s orders after the woman’s son thrilled the President with a moving poem in 2014 during Kenya Rifles pass-out at Lanet Barracks. President Uhuru invited the woman, Damaris Wambui and her son to State House after the excellent performance and promised to pay his school fees and build his mother a house.
“This (house) can’t be what the president had in mind when he said he would give us a house. It is a shame for people to associate the President with such a house,” Wambui said in a recent interview.Since then, the boy and her mother have continued to live in a mud-walled single room house in Lanet.