Name: Saunu Nbuvi

Born: 1995

Education: Primary-She attended primary school at Wanja and Kim Preparatory School-Nairobi

Secondary School-Buru Buru Girls High School, where she did form four  exams                         in 2012

college- She studied Public Relations at Jomo Kenyatta University of  and science Technology (JKUAT), Karen Campus.

Daughdter: To Mike Mbuvi Sonko and Primrose Mbuvi

Work: Businesslady

Status: Single And Mother to One Chid

School

Saumu attended her primary school at Wanja and Kim Preparatory School, and afterwards Buru Buru Girls High School, where she finished in 2012.

While in high school, Saumu lost someone very close to her, whom she says she does not want to name, and it had a big impact on her. She describes herself as the kind of person who doesn’t easily share her issues.

Due to bottling up the pain of bereavement, she started acting up.

Being rebellious

“I started being rebellious as a way to get my parents’ attention. It was during this time, in 2010, that my father was busy with the Makadara constituency by-election.

My mother was taking care of my siblings, and I had to struggle through my issues, and still be the eldest sibling that the younger ones could look up to.

That can be a lot for a normal teenager to deal with. At some point, things got really tough, and I was suspended from school for misconduct. But all in all, I dealt with my troubles and did my final exams, in which I excelled. I can say that I have experienced both the low and high life,” she says.

All this time, not many around her knew she was Sonko’s daughter, up until campus. She studied Public Relations at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Karen Campus. “Our family was invited to the Churchill Show when I was in First Year in campus, and that was when most of my friends in college knew that I was Sonko’s daughter.

I am a simple but outgoing person, so when that came out, it was hard to cope. I got many friends, some fake, who were there because they thought I was always loaded with cash, since my father was a politician.

Of course, things changed afterwards, but I maintained my normal campus life. I was going out and having fun, just like any other college-going girl.

However, being a politician’s daughter, I would wake up to all sorts of gossip stories on blogs. There was a time a blog wrote that I was a ‘party animal’, and that I had blacked out somewhere.

I was shocked to read that. I couldn’t believe that people can be so insensitive, and go that far, just for ratings,” she recounts. In campus, she participated in school politics, something she says she had always been interested in.

She was elected the vice chair of the student’s union, a post she held from 2015 to 2016 when she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Her lavish graduation party, organised by her proud father, saw performers such as Tanzanian star Ali Kiba flown in. The grand bash made entertainment news headlines but, a month later, she found out that she was pregnant.