Ivar Kituyi died in his prime and a bright star was dimmed too soon

“We always take it for granted that when we bring up our kids they will be there till we pass on. The children will see us to the grave, not the other way round. So to lose our eldest son at the young age of 30 has been extremely difficult to take. But our future is not always in our hands.”

Those were the words of Dr Mukhisa Kituyi when he eulogised his son Ivar Makari Kituyi at St Austin’s Church in Nairobi on a sombre Thursday afternoon as other people went about their business elsewhere in the city, oblivious of the agony the family, relatives and friends were going through as it finally dawned upon all of us that we will never see Makari again.