President Uhuru Kenyatta has condoled with family, friends and colleagues of the Senior Assistant Commissioner of Prisons and first woman Commandant of Prisons Staff Training College Wanini Kireri.


Uhuru mourned Kireri as a trailblazer who broke the glass ceiling for Kenyan women serving in the prisons service through sheer hard work, determination and discipline.

In his message of condolence, Uhuru regretted that death had robbed Kenya of one of her brightest stars whose decades of outstanding public service had helped uplift the profile of Kenya Prisons Service.

Kireri passed away on Tuesday afternoon at the AAR Hospital Along Kiambu Road in Nairobi.

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Several major reforms in the Kenya Prisons are attributed to the late Kireri.


Ms Wanini Kireri enlisted in the Kenya Prisons Service as a Cadet in 1982 and has over the years risen through the ranks to become Kenya's highest positioned prisons officer, earning several accolades and decorations along the way.