Gichugu IEBC returning officer collapses, dies in Nanyuki

Gichugu IEBC returning officer officer Geoffrey Gitobu has died.

He passed away on Monday after mysteriously falling Ill and collapsing while at the IEBC Nanyuki's office.

Speaking to the Star by phone, County returning officer Jane Gitonga, said the official had gone to see his family in Nanyuki over the weekend.

After the rigorous election exercise and was to get back to Kirinyaga on Monday in preparation to resume work early this week.

"I had sent him to pass by our office in Nanyuki to photocopy for me some documents," she said.

"It is at that point that he mysteriously collapsed while at the office and was pronounced dead at one of the private health facilities within Nanyuki in which he was rushed."

Gitonga said that the 57-year-old had never complained of any illness and as such a postmortem would be better placed to reveal the death cause.

She said his body is lying at the Nanyuki cottage hospital mortuary.