MP Nzengu Eulogises fallen CDF Chairperson as an exemplary performer

During the emotional  farewell at which tears flowed freely among  family members and mourners, Nzengu said he had lost a loyal worker and an achiever  adding that he was a performer par excellence.

Mwiyei  who was a Clergyman with the AEPC Church, succumbed to bravely borne prostate cancer. He visited many hospitals both within and without Kenya. He is survived by widow Winrose Kavengi  and four sons.

Nzengu told the mourners who had thronged Mbauni village in Itivanzou village of Kyuso district, Mwingi North sub county that Mwiyei was many times better than a previous holder of the CDF office chairmanship.

“Before he took over office, I had another person who abused my generosity. I endured two and half years of a very difficult period dealing with a man I helped get the chairman but he abused my generosity,” lamented Nzengu.

The MP said although he had a hand in the man’s appointment, he did not recognise him and even bragged that he had been hired by the CDF national board. He only found peace after Mwiyei took over, he said.

“One wonders how the NG-CDF board nestled in Nairobi would have learned about a man living deep in the rural village were it not for my identifying him,” said the legislator.

He however observed that the about four to five years that the late Mwiyei had served as the Mwingi North NG-CDF  had been the best as his sense of duty made things move seamlessly.

Speaking during the ceremony that was presided over by the moderator of the AEPC Church in Kenya  Dr. Joseph Mitei the MCA for Tharaka ward in Mwingi North, Muthengi Ndangara, said as the chairman  of the NG-CDF, Mwiyei  left an indelible mark among the population.

“Mwiyei was a clear testimony that one does not have to hold a very high office to make a positive impact or facilitate great achievements in society,” said Ndangara.

“When he worked as an education officer in Tseikuru I was a young secondary school lad but I used to admire his devotion to duty and service. He blended his seriousness and commitment with a sense of humor though,” he added.

The MCA for Tseikuru, Kimanzi Muange, told the family of the late Mwiyei that due to his good deeds when he was alive, his memory  would linger  for long.

“I want to tell his family  that he was a great man whose song may have ended but the melody would linger forever,” he said metaphorically.