The State Department for Broadcasting and Telecommunications regrets the loss of one of their staff David Mutwiri Magiri who passed away on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, following a tragic accident in Isiolo town.   The late Mutwiri was a Senior Information Officer working at the Chuka County Information Office in Tharaka Nithi County.   According to the Principal Secretary in the State Department of Information and Broadcasting, Stephen Isaboke, in a condolence message read on his behalf by the Director, Directorate of Information, Joseph Kipkoech, Mutwiri was "a committed officer; a thorough and reliable employee with a reserved but likeable personality and a deep devotion to his family".   "Mutwiri will be remembered by colleagues and workmates as a person who demonstrated exceptional devotion to duty and often went an extra mile to ensure he delivered on his assignments," said the condolence message.   Mr.

Kipkoech disclosed that departmental records indicated that David Mutwiri, who was born in 1969 and attended Nairobi School and Egerton University joined the State Department for Information and Broadcasting in June 2011 and was posted to the then Coast Province as an Information Officer II in the then Lamu District.   In February 2015, he was transferred to Isiolo County, where he worked for four years and in October 2018, he was posted to Chuka as the County Information Officer in charge of Tharaka Nithi County, where he served until his death last week.   Mutwiri was buried on Friday, May 30, 2025, at Githongo village, Imenti, Meru County, in a ceremony attended by information officers from Nairobi, Tharaka Nithi, Meru, Narok, Laikipia and Isiolo County; family members; local residents; local leaders; and the clergy.   He is survived by his wife, Caroline Gataka, and children, Shem Mwiti, Karen Mukiri and Michael Mwenda.   "We pray that God grants his entire family and colleagues the strength, resilience and fortitude to bear the loss and to enable them to uphold the values he cherished so that he is truly immortalized," said PS Isaboke in his condolence message.   "The Ministry of Information, Communication and the Digital Economy and especially the State Department for Information and Broadcasting will greatly miss his skills, precision and commitment at the workplace," added the PS.   By Donald Ngala