Body Of Late Governor Nderitu Gachagua To Arrive On Thursday

The body of the late Nyeri Governor Nderitu Gachagua will arrive in the country on Thursday morning this week.

The family spokesman who is also the younger brother of Gachagua, Rigathi Gachagua said the body will leave London on Wednesday evening and arrive at JKIA at 5am.

While briefing journalists at Gachagua’s home in Hiriga on Sunday, Mathira, Nyeri County, Rigathi said several governors will be travelling to London in UK and accompany the body home.

“We are consulting and being helped by High Commissioner in London and also PS Foreign Affairs Monica Juma to ensure that the body is brought back home. We have received a lot of support from them and once the paper works are through, the body will be flown home,” he added.

At the same time, it emerged that the governor had wished to die at his Hiriga home and arrangements had already been made for him to travel back home on Wednesday however, the airlines concerned declined saying he was very weak.

Rigathi said the family started looking for other means but it was not possible since he died on Friday while arrangements were being made.

He said burial arrangements are being made and prayers being held daily at Hiriga home but the actual date will be announced later since there is a lot of consultations between the county government and the national government.

“It was his wish that he be laid to rest next to our father Reriani Gachagua who passed on several years ago. Friends have started meeting here at his Hiriga home for daily prayers, at his Nairobi and Nyeri town homes,” he added.