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Family, leaders mourn athletics pioneer's death

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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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