Hit-and-Run driver kills a former Bungoma Municipal Council Mayor

FORMER Mayor, Thaddeus Simiyu Matibila died on 10th Dec. 2020 following a hit-and-run incident involving a vehicle that was heading towards Kanduyi from Ndengelwa on the Webuye – Malaba highway. He was pronounced dead at Bungoma West hospital…. His body is being preserved at LifeCare Hospital morgue

He served as Bungoma Municipal Council’s Mayor from 2006 to 2007 having been elected as a councillor representing Stadium Ward in 2002. It was later merged with Khalaba Ward in 2012 during boundary review

He was from Bamukhurarwa Clan and was a staunch FORD Kenya supporter

2013 election results:

1. Okumu Henry Majimbo – ODM – 5,152
2. Matibila Thaddeus Simiyu – FORD KENYA – 1,221
3. Tela Augustine Nyongesa – NEW FORD KENYA – 1,063
4. Mutenyo Naomi Purity – TNA – 473
5. Oketch Nicholas Hamala – FPK – 400
6. Kongani Immaculate Namalwa – WDM-K 180

“Basale, 2020 kumwaka kumubi…..mwana wa mayi Nasike Mayor Thaddeus Simiyu Matibila, may your soul RIP…… councillor stadium ward 2002 to 2007, elected mayor in 2006 to 2007…. let your blood haunt the driver of that hit n run vehicle???????”

~ Hon. Majimbo Okumu, MCA Khalaba ward ~

Death is so cruel rest in peace mkhwasi till we meet again

~ Famous Bush ~

My heartfelt condolences to family and friends may God see them through in these difficult times

~ Elijah Wekesa ~

#iKUWEiKUWE Corner;

“As a supporter of Hon. Majimbo Okumu I remember Mheshimiwa Matibila most for the 2013 election campaigns where we squared with him among others for the Khalaba ward seat… We would race from Wamalwa Kijana thru the various oiling stations to Lupinda in the name of “Protecting our votes”… He could hug me at every meeting in the process to appreciate the stiff Mundu-Khu-Mundu competition… Most importantly, we pulled a violence free, Mature and almost-clean competition. After we won, he’d meet Hon. Majimbo and I with a smile saying ‘nono muli mubwami mwata asi ndie’ we’d then all laugh… namna hiyo namna hiyo”

I’ve lost a friend who carried no grudges. RIP Papa?

#eDDUHSimiyu
#iKUWEiKUWE ?
10.12.2020@20:32hours