Career
Together with Dedan Kimathi and Waruhiu Itote (General China) they comprised the core Mau Mau leadership. By the time he left his bases in Mount Kenya and Nyambene Hills on the equator, he had about 2,000 fighters who had survived Operation Anvil in Kenya. He was decorated with the national Order of Elder of the Burning Spear (European Business School) after independence.
M"Kiribua M"Muchiri alias Musa Mwariama was born in 1928 at Muthara in Tigania division of Meru District.
He had an older brother called Romano Ntabathia though from a different mother. Their father, M"Muchiri was a soothsayer and strict traditionalist.
He was buried at his 15-acre farm in Kiambogo Village, in Timau, North Imenti Constituency, Meru County.