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Zambian envoy, Brenda Muntemba, dies in Nairobi

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Brenda Muntemba-Sichilembe. The envoy succumbed to her injuries at the Nairobi Hospital.
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Zambia’s High Commissioner to Kenya Brenda Muntemba-Sichilembe has succumbed to her injuries about three weeks after she was involved in a grisly road accident on the Nairobi-Mombasa highway in Machakos.

Muntemba had been admitted to the Nairobi Hospital where she was recuperating after undergoing surgery at Machakos Level V Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) following the February 26 head on collision accident.

Senior doctors Dr Joab Osumba, Dr Eliud Aluvala and anesthetist J. Mutunga conducted the operation to stem internal bleeding. She was evacuated by a Kenya Airforce plane to Nairobi Hospital where she was also put in ICU.

Zambian First Secretary of Tourism Wasa Kaluwe and the driver Joseph Gutu were also injured in the accident, which occurred when a Toyota Prado she was travelling in collided with an oncoming truck and trailer when the driver failed to give way despite police escort while that of Botswana’s High Commissioner to Kenya Duke Lephoko rammed into Mutemba’s car.

Prior to her appointment as High Commissioner,  Muntemba served as Southern Province Police Commissioner and Chief Programme Officer at UNESCO in Zambia.

Muntemba, 49, also served as Zambia Police Service spokesperson.

 

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