He was decorated with the national Order of Elder of the Burning Spear (EBS) after independence.
M'Kiribua M'Muchiri, or Mbaringu, or Muthigari Mugathe, or Nkumbuku, or Field Marshall Mwariama was born in 1928 at Muthara in Tigania division of Meru County.
[1] According to Ameru tradition, his parents who had migrated from Nkuene in South Imenti, gave him the name Mbaringu.
Musa Mwariama died in 1989 at Ukambani after he sucked the leg of a friend who had been bitten by a venomous snake.
He was buried at his 15-acre (6 ha) farm in Kiambogo Village, in Timau, North Buuri Constituency, Meru County.