{"id":19701,"date":"2015-06-02T08:45:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T08:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kibaki-s-elder-brother-dies-after-collapsing-at\/"},"modified":"2015-06-02T08:45:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T08:45:34","slug":"kibaki-s-elder-brother-dies-after-collapsing-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kibaki-s-elder-brother-dies-after-collapsing-at\/","title":{"rendered":"Kibaki\u2019s elder brother dies after collapsing at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8128 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/editor6503716143278760963-524x350.jpg\" alt=\"Former President Mwai Kibaki during a previous interview. FILE PHOTO | NAIROBI NEWS\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{Former President Mwai Kibaki\u2019s elder brother Bernard Nderitu died on  Monday at his home in Iriani, Nyeri County.}<\/p>\n<p>According to his wife Martha Njeri,  they had just taken breakfast when the 88 year-old Mr Nderitu excused himself but suddenly collapsed as he approached the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased will remembered for giving up his chance to attend school to his younger brother Mwai Kibaki who proceeded to be Kenya\u2019 third post-independence President.<\/p>\n<p>His wife narrated to reporters how she had heard a loud bang at the bathroom\u2019s he door and rushed to check only to find her husband motionless on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had just taken breakfast when he asked to go to the bathroom. I had a loud bang of the door as if something had fallen,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI rushed to the bathroom and found him on the floor<\/p>\n<p>The octogenarian had earlier in January been admitted in a hospital in Nairobi for two weeks where he was treated with pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p>The family said he had responded well to medication and his death came as a sudden shock.<\/p>\n<p>The late had attended a family function on Sunday and had mingled with relatives normally without complaining of any pain or discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>{{Nairobi News}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Former President Mwai Kibaki\u2019s elder brother Bernard Nderitu died on Monday at his home in Iriani, Nyeri County.} According to his wife Martha Njeri, they had just taken breakfast when the 88 year-old Mr Nderitu excused himself but suddenly collapsed as he approached the bathroom. The deceased will remembered for giving up his chance to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000068757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-19701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000068757,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton19701.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton19701.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton19701.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton19701.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton19701.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton19701.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000068757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19701"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=19701"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=19701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}