The widow of former Internal Security Assistant Minister Mirugi Kariuki is dead, bringing to an end the life of a woman who showed resilience and grit as her family suffered at the hands of State operatives.

Susan Wangui was catapulted into the national limelight in the late 1980s when police officers used to raid their home and harass their then-young family, alleging that her husband was involved in subversive activities.

A nurse at the Rift Valley Provincial Hospital (currently Nakuru County Referral and Teaching Hospital), she was on several occasions suspended from duty on orders of top government officials whenever Kariuki was charged in court or hurled into detention.