The death of the popular Kikuyu Benga musician Murimi wa Kahalf was one of the most controversial deaths seven years ago. Kenya lost one of the most blessed and promising original musician whose absence will ever produce a vacuum in Kikuyu Benga music assiduity.
Stories have been going viral on what might have caused the death of Murimi Wa Kahalf the most popular bone being that he failed from necromancy. It was said that he took a deposit from a Kamba to sing in his club but noway turned up and rather went to another club. The club proprietor gave him seven days to return the plutocrat which he did not and he asked him to noway return the plutocrat and from there his straits started.
To make everything clear and straight, an original Kikuyu TV visited the mother to the late Murimi Wa Kahalf who’s presently living in objective poverty. According to the her , Murimi was her only child which left her life with a vacuum which nobody can fill except Murimi Wa Kahalf daughter who’s in form two.
Grace who’s the mother disagreed with the rumours that his son failed of necromancy and rather she made it clear that he’d of liver problem. The son hadn’t told her about his sickness since he knew very well how the mama loved him she’d die before him. When the mother learnt her son was sick he was admitted to Agha Khan hospital and she went to see him.
After asking why he could not tell her about the sickness, Murimi just asked his mama to kiss him and he said he loved her very much. He added that he’d a liver problem and it could not be treated but his mother believed he’d make it. For a period of four months they had visited every hospital but all in vain.
Murimi said he wanted to go back to his motherland Kirinyaga county to try herbal drugs but after coming back effects turned worse. The coming day his stomach had swollen and they had to take him to hospital and when they reached event, he asked his mama for a glass of water. After taking the water the pressure from his stomach eased and on 4th June 2015, Murimi Wa Kahalf breathed his last breath which was caused by liver problem
by: Betounic