23-year-old Miss World Kenya- Nyamira County 2016 passes away

Miss World Kenya -Nyamiri County 2016, Mercy Mokeira has passed away, her father
confirmed to eDaily Kenya.
Last year, LIB posted a photo of two Kenyan beauty queens and two inmates at
Lang'ata Women's Prison, which went viral with online users pointing out that the
prisoners are more beautiful than the queens.
The photo shows the late Miss World Kenya-Nyamira County (second from left) and
Miss World Kenya-Siaya County posing next to two female inmates, including Ruth
Wanjiku Kamende, who stabbed her boyfriend 22 times, during a visit on International
Women's Day.

Mokeira died aged 23 on Saturday, January 28, at 11:30am at North Kinangop
Hospital, where she had been hospitalised since mid January 2017.
Mercy Mokeira had fallen ill last year December and was admitted to a hospital in
Kijabe after complaining of neck pain. At the hospital, she was diagnosed with
thyroid disease. She got well and was later discharged.
However, mid January 2017, she fell ill again and was taken to North Kinangop
Hospital. On the second admission, she was frail and couldn’t talk or do things by
herself.
Her blood samples were taken to Nairobi for testing on Tuesday, but before a report
could be presented to North Kinangop Hospital, she died.
“My first born child, Mercy Mokeira, died today (Saturday, January 28) – and my
family is headed to North Kinangop Hospital to transfer her body to a morgue in
Gilgil. It is such a sad day for me,” her father, Josephat Momanyi told EDAILY on
phone at 8:50pm Saturday.
Miss World Kenya franchise holder Terry Mungai has eulogized Mercy Mokeira as a
lively and hard-working lady.
"I am saddened by the death of Mercy Mokeira. I pass my condolences to her family
and the entire Nyamira County. Mokeira was a very cheerful lady, and she did a good
job in the fight against jigger infestation in different parts of the country."
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