Court postpones Ex-Nairobi City Clerk Gakuo’s appeal to allow family file proof of his death

Former Nairobi Town Clerk and County Environment Executive Officer John Gakuo who passed on on Tuesday serving a three-year prison term with three others for illegal procurement of cemetery land. [James Mwangi/Standard]

The hearing of an appeal filed by former Nairobi City Clerk John Gakuo challenging his three years jail term over Sh283 million cemetery saga failed to proceed after his lawyer informed the court of his death.

His lawyer Assa Nyakundi told the court that Gakuo died in Prison on Tuesday and that his family was waiting for a post-mortem examination to be conducted on Wednesday at 1 pm to ascertain the cause of his death.