Former chairman of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Wafula Wanyonyi Chebukati’s burial is ongoing in Sabata Kitale, Trans Nzoia county. Wafula Chebukati’s wife Mary reading her tributes. Friends, family members and politicians showed up in great numbers to show support to give the lawyer a befitting sendoff. A sombre mood clouded the venue and the faces of mourners as the 63-year-old was being laid to rest in a moving ceremony. His wife Mary, donned a white dress as she recalled the fateful night she received the dreadful news. “It was almost midnight.
The hospital called in and said, “You need to come to the hospital now”. I asked them why they wanted me at the hospital and I knew it was that dreaded call that I never hoped for. I said I would rather talk to my doctors and let them explain to me what the problem is because I had talked to them an hour earlier. They were very supportive day and night. They insisted that they wanted me to go. After five minutes they called back and told me they had talked to the doctors and they instructed me to go to the hospital. I was told he had a cardiac arrest and while they tried to resuscitate him, they lost him,” she agonisingly recalled.
by John Green
