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The last hours with my husband: Nyenze's wife's touching account of the moments before her man died

Kibwezi East MP Jessica Mbalu (left) consoles Edith Nyenze, the widow of Kitui West MP and former Minority Leader Francis Nyenze at the Lee Funeral Home in Nairobi on Wednesday. [David Gichuru, Standard]

The widow of Kitui West MP Francis Nyenze, who died Wednesday, recalled how her husband sorrowfully and persistently asked her to let him go in his last days.

Edith Nyenze recounted how the MP, who has been battling colon cancer for years, on Tuesday night waved an ominously prolonged goodbye as she left the Nairobi Hospital.

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