While eulogising her husband on Wednesday, Naiyanoi intimated that her husband was keen on nurturing their relationship and that of their two children, recollecting the memories of their early days in marriage.
She was speaking during the memorial service of the six victims — among them MP Ng’eno — who died in a helicopter crash in Nandi County on February 28, 2026.
“You are the life of my early days when everything was still soft and full of possibility. We were young, learning life together and somehow you made it all feel less frightening and more beautiful,” Naiyanoi said.
“Your laugh made ordinary days feel like a celebration. I can still hear it, I think I always will. And the way you loved your children, you adored them, held them with pride and looked at them like they were your greatest accomplishment. In their eyes you were their hero, in mine, you were a gentle, devoted father with a gentle heart.”
She added that her husband’s loss “feels like losing the music of my youth, the laughter, the dreams”, and she will forever uphold the foundation he created in their marriage.
Families and loved ones for the other five victims, among them Captain George Were (pilot), forest Ranger Amos Kipng’etich, photojournalist Nick Kosgey, Robert Keter, popularly known as “Mwalimu Carlos and protocol officer Wycliffe Kiprotich Rono.
Ngeno will be buried on Friday, March 6 and a joint burial service for the remaining victims will be held at Emurua Dikirr Primary School.
