RUTH MATETE TALKS ABOUT TRAGIC DEATHS IN HER FAMILY

Gospel artiste Ruth Matete has shared details of the deaths in her family. In a post on her Instagram account, Matete recounted her late mother’s abusive marriage, “My mother died when I was 8 years old. My step father beat her so badly and she was taken to the hospital because of the injuries. I was still living with her and my step father. So when she realised that she may not make it out alive, she called my father and asked him to come get me I was still very young. So my father just used to come and visit me in the village. Since my mother was still alive, it was better to be with her.

My dad came and took me with him to the city. This is where I have been since then My mother later died a few months after I came to Nairobi. My father was married to another woman here in Nairobi who also later died. (My parents got me out of wedlock and they both got married to different people) My step father died last year.” 

Her daughter’s father John Apewajoye also passed two years ago, “My daughter’s father died two years ago. While in the ambulance after the accident, he told me he wasn’t gonna make it. I thought it was just fear. So I kept encouraging him that he would be fine. He told me all he wanted me to do (I felt like it was those Afro cinema movies). He gave me the name of the baby regardless of the gender. Toluwa is a unisex name. Gave me a message for his sister and brother as well. God gave him two weeks. In those two weeks, each time I went to visit him, he would ask me “Oh! Am still here? It’s like he waited for death. I felt like he didn’t fight to live. But anyway, I will never know fully.”

She acknowledge there has been a pattern of family members losing their spouses, “I don’t know why I am writing all these to be honest. But maybe am just thinking about my life. My daughter’s life. My family pattern when it comes to death. I don’t know. My father losing my mother. My father losing his wife. Me losing my husband. Just a pattern of people losing their spouses. I’m I over thinking? In all these, I have been praying fervently to God for long life. Keep praying for me and my family. Thank you all for your love and for those who stand with me in prayer even when we have never physically met.”