Late journalist Nick Mudimba's sister Loisa has painfully shed tears while eulogising her brother in Siaya county.

Loisa and Nick were close growing up and saying goodbye to him was hard. While her other siblings were giving their tributes, she was seen wiping her tears.

She looked heartbroken, and when she was given the microphone, she could not finish her tribute.

Tears welled up in her eyes. She said:

“Honestly, I don’t have so much to say (she said amidst tears). I am totally broken.”

She was supported by the late's fiancee and one of the mourners led her to her chair.

Nick’s eldest sister, Lilian Achieng Mudimba, the firstborn, recalled the last time he visited her. This was a week before his demise.

She recalled how her brother loved eating chapatis and noted something was off with him when he visited.

“I want to thank each of you who has made an effort to visit today to give us this moral support. Nick worked near where I stay and he used to pop in from time to time and after some ten minutes from lunch break he’d say, ‘can I pop in?’ He would come, but this year from January really caught my attention because he frequented my place quite often and we would chat," she said.

Lilian said she regretted not asking her brother to stay for a while longer. During their last conversation, her brother was unusually silent. She added:

"But the last time he called me five minutes before 2 and he told me he was supposed to report at 2 pm. So he called and asked can he come for five minutes. He came and had nothing to tell me. He was quite unusual of him. He just wanted water. Thank God that day we had eaten chapatis and I gave some to him. That was a week before he died. I did not know that was the last time I was going to see him. I felt like I should have told him to stay a little more."

Nick's younger brother said his brother showed him the way, and he hoped that he would not get lost.

"Nick was my big brother who showed me the way. I just hope I don’t get lost in here with Ken… thank you."

In other news, the journalist's mum, Mary Atieno, recalled her son as a caring man who loved and took care of everyone.

She shared the values her son had, such as being a hard worker, who was committed to his work.

Mary said she knew CGTN would miss her son dearly.

Source: TUKO.co.ke