The late retired Chief Justice Evan Gicheru will be laid to rest on Thursday, December 31, the family has said. The wife to the retired chief justice, Margaret Gicheru, said that Mr Gicheru, who passed on on Friday morning, will be buried before the turn of the New Year. Mr Gicheru served as Kenya’s chief justice between 2003 and 2011 before being succeeded by former Chief Justice Dr Willy Mutunga then followed by Mr Maraga. The CJ remembered how the late Gicheru could not recognise him when he had visited him a while back, showing the extent of the deterioration of his health. “I called the head of the public service Joseph Kinyua and the two speakers of Parliament and arrangements are being made about the funeral of Mr Gicheru as a senior civil servant.

Source: Daily Nation December 26, 2020 16:29 UTC