Christine Omulando, sub-editor at Nation Media Group, 46, dies in matatu accident
Nation Media Group fraternity is mourning the death of another journalist, following an accident at Nairobi’s Khoja Mosque roundabout, in the central business district, on the afternoon of Monday, March 16.
Christine Omulando, 46, a sub-editor at The EastAfrican weekly regional newspaper was confirmed dead on Thursday.
The journalist had been reported missing on Wednesday after colleagues and family failed to reach her on phone the whole of Tuesday.
She reported to work on Monday, March 16, 2020, as usual and left the office for lunch in the early afternoon.
Police say a matatu whose driver had lost control veered off the road and smashed into a group of pedestrians on a pavement near the Khoja Mosque, Nairobi, before a minibus knocked her down.
Traffic police officers at the scene reported that she and two women pedestrians, who were waiting to cross the road, were knocked down. Omulando died on the spot.
Ms Omulando was a veteran journalist, who had initially worked for the People Daily and the defunct Kenya Times newspapers, before joining the Nation Media Group where she worked for over a decade.
The accident happened just as the Group was coming to terms with the death of a journalist at NTV.
News producer Raphael Nzioki died a fortnight ago, in what police said was a case of hit-and-run accident at the intersection of Kenyatta Avenue and Kimathi Street, a stone’s throw away from the Nation Centre.
The police have identified the responsible drivers and their vehicles in both cases.
Daily Nation
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