Dorcas Gachagua Biography – Dorcas Gachagua Wiki
Dorcas Gachagua is a retired Kenyan banker and pastor best known for being the wife of the fifth deputy president of Kenya, Rigathi Gachagua. She started her primary school education at Mugumo-ini Primary School and then proceeded to St Francis Girls. After that, she was accepted into Kenyatta University’s 1985/1986 intake.
While at Kenyatta University, she pursued a bachelor of education degree. She majored in History and CRE. Following that she joined the Agriculture Department of Cooperative bank in 1990, and worked towards becoming a banker. She explains that developing a plan for coffee and tea farmers to be able to access credit without having to put up collateral was part of her job. She retired as a banker to join the family business as a director in 2006.
According to Ms. Gachagua, her early adolescent years were the most difficult because she and her siblings shuttled between coffee farms and did various menial jobs, including becoming maids to supplement their mother’s meager wages. This was after the demise of her father.
Dorcas Gachagua Age
Her birth name is Dorcas Wanjiku. Most of her time growing up was spent in Kiandutu Slums in Thika town following the move of her family from Ndunyu Chege, Muranga, her original birthplace.
Dorcas Gachagua Husband
She is married to her husband, the fifth deputy president of Kenya, Honourable Rigathi Gachagua. Ms. Gachagua said she first met her husband in the early 1980s while visiting the late president Moi at his Kabarnet Gardens home.
Ms. Rigathi recounted in a number of interviews that the trip was a mission where she was going to undertake suicide. mission in a series of interviews. According to her, she was in bed contemplating suicide on that particular day when one of her girlfriends woke her up and informed her of the trip to Moi’s home. She stated she only agreed because she realized it would most likely be her last trip. She intended to create a scene on the presidential dais in the hopes of being shot dead.
“When the president stood, I just got up and ran and I expected them to shoot me… I don’t know how it happened, but it is God’s way of doing things,” she narrated. “He stood up and started coming towards me and I went and bumped into him… I was asking myself, is this how people die?
Her now husband, Gachagua was leading the delegation from Nyeri to Moi’s home and was the one ticking off names and would interpret his future wife’s desperate act as one of courage. Her suicidal plan was foiled by Gachagua who provided solace to her when she narrated what her plan was. After telling her intentions to the late Mzee Moi, she was invited to State House alongside her
mother and her siblings.
On the day she and her family visited Mzee Moi, Gachagua was also at the State House, flanked by his parents who were pursuing a different matter. The second meeting led to the beginning of their relationship which led to their marriage in 1989. They are parents of two adult men.
Dorcas Gachagua Children
She has two children. Her firstborn son is Kelvin, a computer software engineer who works in a bank while her younger son, Keith works as a medical doctor.
Dorcas Gachagua Family
Her father died when she was 11, leaving her mother to bring up her seven siblings while working menial jobs to provide basic needs such as food for her children. In an interview with KTN News, Mrs. Gachagua said, “A widow with 8 kids you have nowhere to go, it is like you are ostracized, even the family didn’t want her to go back there. My mum worked in her business, trading maize and beans while my siblings and I worked on coffee farms, and sold water to supplement her wages.”
She vividly remembers her family being forced to sleep in a chicken coop after being disowned by their extended family. They believed they were going to ask for a share of their grandfather’s estate.
She continued, “We were made to stay in a chicken coop outside my grandmother’s house because the rest of the family thought we would claim our grandfather’s inheritance.’
Dorcas Gachagua Tribe
She hails from the Agikuyu tribe of Kenya. She is a Kenyan by nationality.
