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Family, leaders mourn athletics pioneer's death

Kenya's pioneer international athlete Nyantika Maiyoro's last born daughter Elector Kerubo (left) consoles her mother Pacifica Monyenche at their Isoge Settlement scheme home in Nyamira County on 25/2/2019 [PHOTO: Sammy Omingo/Standard]

Two weeks ago, while seated on his hospital bed, Kenya’s athletics legend Nyandika Mayioro 88, requested the Government to intervene and end a boundary dispute at his rural home at Isoge settlement scheme, in Nyamira.

But on Sunday evening, Maiyoro’s lifeless body was wheeled to some private morgue in Kisii, ending a journey of a man who has been fighting for the recognition and honour that befits a retired athletics legend.

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