President Uhuru Kenyatta has led the nation in mourning one of Kenya’s top lawyers Phillip Nzamba Kitonga who passed away on Saturday at the age of 64 years. The Senior Counsel and Constitutional expert is said to have collapsed while attending a funeral at his home area of Mutito in Kitui and died while being rushed to hospital. “I am deeply saddened by the death of my friend Senior Counsel Nzamba Kitonga, a fine constitutional lawyer and a trailblazer whose successes in public service are finely documented. “I have learnt of the passing on of Nzamba Kitonga with utmost sadness. We have just lost Nzamba Kitonga SC this evening.”The body of deceased senior counsel has since been moved from Machakos to the Lee Funeral Home in Nairobi.

Source: Daily Nation October 25, 2020 09:33 UTC