John Thoya Maitha, son of former Cabinet Minister Karisa Maitha, is dead.
Thoya, an engineer by profession, was mourned by senior leaders from his Coast backyard, such as Cabinet Secretary Salim Mvurya and Senate Speaker Amason Kingi.
At the time of his death, Thoya was a lecturer at the Technical University of Mombasa, where he also served as the Deputy Director at the Renewable Energy and Climate Change Research Centre.
Even as the cause of his death is yet to be established, Mvurya credited Thoya as a distinguished academic and senior lecturer whose scholarly contributions greatly enriched the engineering field and the Blue Economy sector in higher education.
