It was a love story that began during the 2022 campaign period. Eric Wamumbi, the Mathira Member of Parliament, met Betty Maina, the Murang’a woman representative, and discovered she had everything he wanted in a wife. They started dating, and two years later, they are now set to tie the knot.
Wamumbi and Maina have been living together for some time now, and they have decided to make it official. Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua will be the chief negotiator in a planned ceremony that will see two legislators become husband and wife.
“We have now decided to live together as husband and wife, and Gachagua will be my chief negotiator when Mathira meets Murang’a for the takeover of her daughter,” Wamumbi told Inooro TV.
During the interview, Wamumbi praised Maina, describing her as “sweet, lovely, and kind”. He says they complement each other in every way and that she has everything he wants in a woman. He says that at home, she is his wife, his best friend, his prayer partner, the mother of their children, his happiness, his best cook, and the one he has chosen to grow old with.
Maina, on her part, says she came out of an irreconcilable marriage before she met Wamumbi. Both have two children each from their first marriages.
While the official date has not been communicated, the first-term legislator has given indications that it will go down this month. “This week, I will be in Murang’a for preliminary planning before the big day when I will descend on this land of my love in a manner that will make all envious,” he stated.
Prior to being elected, Maina was a director at the Athi Water Development Agency before she resigned to contest for the seat. Wamumbi, the former Konyu ward MCA, had announced his intention to defend his seat when the then UDA presidential candidate William Ruto chose Gachagua as his running mate.
On December 21 last year, when Wamumbi celebrated his 35th birthday, Maina posted: “35 years is a great achievement. Live long, my love.” This confirmed the love affair between the two had started some time back.
Wamumbi’s first wife, Catherine Nyambura, whom he married in 2015 and was blessed with two sons, died in 2020. Now, he has found love again, and he is ready to start a new chapter in his life with Maina.
