{"id":9232,"date":"2017-07-31T08:58:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T05:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ke\/?p=9232"},"modified":"2017-07-31T08:58:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T05:58:39","slug":"president-uhuru-leads-kenyans-mourning-death-big-kev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/president-uhuru-leads-kenyans-mourning-death-big-kev\/","title":{"rendered":"President Uhuru leads Kenyans in mourning the death of Big Kev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular event organizer Kevin Ombajo famously known as Big Kev succumbed to brain tumor after a long battle with the chronic disease.<\/p>\n<p>Big Kev died on Saturday night at Nairobi Hospital where he had been admitted for since February this year following the recurrence of the brain tumor.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9233\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9233\" style=\"width: 702px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/07\/bigg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9233\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/07\/bigg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"702\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/07\/bigg.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/07\/bigg-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/07\/bigg-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kidum with Big Kev when he was admitted at Nairobi Hospital in February<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At least 10 operations had been performed on Big Kev in the past seven years to remove recurring tumor in his head. He travelled to different countries for these surgeries.<\/p>\n<p>The operation performed on Big Kev in February 2017 left him with paralysis on his left side of the body, he also lost his eyesight after the operation.<\/p>\n<p>Big Kev passed away on Saturday and the whole nation mourned his death. President Uhuru Kenyatta and fellow celebrities expressed their sincere condolences to the fallen event organizer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/07\/bigi.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9234 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/07\/bigi.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/07\/bigi.png 502w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/07\/bigi-300x237.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rest In Peace Big Kev, you believed in me when they didn&#8217;t believe,&#8221; Wrote King Kaka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular event organizer Kevin Ombajo famously known as Big Kev succumbed to brain tumor after a long battle with the chronic disease. Big Kev died on Saturday night at Nairobi Hospital where he had been admitted for since February this year following the recurrence of the brain tumor. At least 10 operations had been performed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2834,"featured_media":9235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310],"tags":[4601,4602],"class_list":["post-9232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-big-kev-death-news","tag-big-kev-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9232","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=9232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9236,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9232\/revisions\/9236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}