 Wambui claimed in her autobiography that he was murdered by being buried alive for opposing the violent seizure of Kikuyu land.However, Waiyaki wa Hinga had initially cooperated with Frederick Lugard of that company in 1890, and his quarrel with Lugard’s successor was over the latter’s seizure of some of Waiyaki’s cattle without payment rather than Waiyaki’s opposition to colonial land expropriation.In Kikuyu oral tradition and folklore, Waiyaki wa Hinga, is represented as a major chief and fighter against the British invaders, but he had an ambiguous record of working with the Imperial British East Africa Company.