{"id":91903,"date":"2019-01-18T07:39:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T04:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ke\/?p=91903"},"modified":"2019-01-18T07:37:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T04:37:29","slug":"first-lady-margaret-kenyatta-eulogizes-late-bruce-odhiambo-as-a-trailblazer-during-requiem-mass-in-nairobi-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/first-lady-margaret-kenyatta-eulogizes-late-bruce-odhiambo-as-a-trailblazer-during-requiem-mass-in-nairobi-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"First Lady\u00a0Margaret Kenyatta eulogizes late Bruce Odhiambo as\u00a0a trailblazer during requiem mass in Nairobi (Photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The late Bruce Odhiambo was a personal friend to president Uhuru Kenyatta and his family. This explains why First Lady Margaret Kenyatta attended Bruce&#8217;s\u00a0requiem mass.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0former Youth Enterprise and Development Fund (YEDF) board Chairman died\u00a0on 4th January at the Nairobi Hospital after a battle with heart condition.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday family, friends and well-wishers gathered at the Nairobi Baptist Church in Nairobi for a\u00a0memorial service for the fallen music producer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_91893\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91893\" style=\"width: 698px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/01\/magi3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-91893 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/01\/magi3.jpg\" alt=\"First Lady Margaret Kenyatta at the Nairobi Baptist Church during a requiem mass for Bruce Odhiambo \" width=\"698\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/01\/magi3.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/01\/magi3-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/01\/magi3-768x550.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/01\/magi3-1024x734.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Lady Margaret Kenyatta at the Nairobi Baptist Church during a requiem mass for Bruce Odhiambo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h5>Beyond Zero campaign<\/h5>\n<p>First Lady Margaret Kenyatta was among those who paid tribute to Bruce, she eulogized the deceased as a trailblazer with an unmatched zeal to support local talent and artistes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/01\/Magi1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-91894 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/01\/Magi1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"716\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/01\/Magi1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/01\/Magi1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/01\/Magi1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/01\/Magi1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/01\/Magi1-690x460.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Margaret recounted how Bruce greatly contributed to her Beyond Zero campaign. She said that no words could adequately describe Bruce&#8217;s role in the building of the Beyond Zero brand to its current status.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/01\/magi2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-91895 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/01\/magi2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/01\/magi2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/01\/magi2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/01\/magi2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/01\/magi2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/01\/magi2-690x460.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fallen music producer will be buried on Saturday January 19th, the burial will be held at Bruce&#8217;s rural home in Koru, Kisumu county.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late Bruce Odhiambo was a personal friend to president Uhuru Kenyatta and his family. This explains why First Lady Margaret Kenyatta attended Bruce&#8217;s\u00a0requiem mass. The\u00a0former Youth Enterprise and Development Fund (YEDF) board Chairman died\u00a0on 4th January at the Nairobi Hospital after a battle with heart condition. On Thursday family, friends and well-wishers gathered at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2834,"featured_media":91896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310],"tags":[11927,7012],"class_list":["post-91903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bruce-odhiambo-news","tag-margaret-kenyatta-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2834"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91904,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91903\/revisions\/91904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}