PHOTOS Of Josephine Kabura Irungu Family- The Lady Behind NYS Theft

Josephine Kabura Irungu was born in 1882 in Kiangiti village of Kiharu in Murang’a County.  She is the third born in a family of six; her mother is a retired nurse while her father retired as bursar from Chania secondary school.

She attended Kiambisho primary and secondary schools still in Muranga County. After completing form Four she started as a village salonist and thereafter joined her aunt who owned a saloon along Koinange street in Nairobi.
She has two children who she sired with a pastor in Nairobi but she is not married.

Josephine Kabura Irungu says she met Anne Waiguru while working for Kenya Data Network between April and May 2012. She was introduced to former Devolution Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru by a male contractor with connections at the NYS.

The contractor, with whom Kabura is said to have a close relationship, hails from Waiguru’s Kirinyanga County and played a key role during Waiguru’s homecoming party held at her Kiamugumo home in Gichugu Constituency in September 2014 where President Uhuru Kenyatta was among the VIP guests in attendance.
From the introduction, a friendship blossomed that would catapult the once humble village girl to a multi millionaire albeit on stolen money.