Editor Kihumba Kamotho dies of Pneumonia aged 56 at Mater Hospital

Kihumba Kamotho File. NMG

Newspaper editor and communications expert Kihumba Kamotho dies aged 56 after a short illness. He was admitted at Mater Hospital.

Mr Kamotho, 56, was until his death on Monday working in the communications department of the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), a unit he headed until last year.

He briefly worked at the Nation Media Group as a writer in 1992 and served as an education writer, chief sub-editor and senior editor at the Standard Media Group from 1994 to 2002 when he joined the TSC secretariat.

Mr Kamotho died at Mater Hospital, where he was being treated for pneumonia. He had left behind his wife Catherine and four children.