Deputy President William Ruto and Edwin Obonyo, the husband to the late Governor Joyce Laboso address the media at the Lee Funeral Home in Nairobi on 29th July, 2019.

Bomet Governor Joyce Laboso told doctors she wanted to be discharged shortly before her death.

According to The Standard newspaper, Laboso requested to go home eight days ago, a move a section of her family was opposed to.

“I want to go rest at home,” told one of her doctors on July 21 from her hospital bed in the high dependency unit (HDU).

Two days earlier on July 19, the governor had been moved to the HDU from the Intensive Care Unit, where she requested to be allowed to ‘rest at home.’

Joyce Laboso.

However, a section of her family argued that she needed to remain in hospital.

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Consequently, on July 22, she was moved to the general VIP ward in the North Wing of the Nairobi Hospital. She remained there till her death.

28 years battling cancer

According to The Standard, Laboso was diagnosed with cancer in 1991 but she was in remission till recently, when her health deteriorated as the cancer had spread all over her body.

For the past two months, Laboso has been in hospitals in India and London before being taken to the Nairobi Hospital, where she died on Monday afternoon.