Rachel Shebesh

Rachael Wambui Shebesh is a Kenyan politician. She was the first Nairobi county woman representative, from 2013 to 2017. On 30 October 2021, The CAS, who is married to Frank Shebesh held a colourful traditional wedding ceremony at her parents' home in Githunguri where she marked her completion of marriage rites

Quotes

• Social media can be wicked. There were times I sat down and cried bitterly. I asked myself why I had to go through some things in life, but with my family’s support, I came out stronger. If you are a person of weak character, you can easily give up. But I am no quitter.
  • https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/counties/article/2000128636/shebesh-speaks-out-on-kidero-slap-and-brawl-with-sonko, (The Standard)
• I was paid close to Sh30 million by the former Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero, the payment was an out-of-court settlement.
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• If you don't have a strong support around you, you might collapse. If I did not have someone around me and they understand what I was going through, I would have collapsed.
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• Cyberbullying is heavy. I was reading on social media, newspapers and everywhere, wondering when all this was coming to an end.
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• It was a lot of pressure. It was the most difficult depression I have ever gone through. I settled with him and closed that chapter.
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• We are at peace. To me, it is just an incident that happened in my life and I have moved on with it.
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• It affected my family, broke a lot of my relationships. It caused my political visibility to reduce and also took a toll on my health.
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• I was triggered by so many things and at the time, I had not learnt how to deal with my triggers.
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• I disappeared for a year and people were asking where I had gone to. And even when I came back, most people thought I was coming to ask for votes
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• When you have bipolar, you can get triggers from anything,
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