Standard journalist laid to rest amid calls to tame cancer

Journalists carry a casket bearing the remains of their colleague, John Karume's grave during his burial at his rural home in Kanyiriri village in Endarasha, Kieni Constituency in Nyeri County on April 8 2016.,Karume died after a brave battle with breast cancer, a rare disease among men. PHOTO: KIBATA KIHU/STANDARD.

A Standard Group journalist who died of breast cancer was on Friday laid to rest in Endarasha, Nyeri County, with calls to declare the disease a national disaster.

Journalists from his former Kiambu base as well as Nairobi, Nyeri, Meru, Laikipia, Nakuru, Murang'a and Tharaka Nithi counties trooped to Kanyiriri village in Endarasha to pay their last respects to John Karume.