How Keroche heiress Tecra Muigai died

Tecra Muigai Accident: Tecra Muigai, the daughter of Keroche Breweries chief executive officer Tabitha Karanja was at her boyfriend’s house when she met her tragic death.

According to a report that appeared in the Daily Nation on Monday, Tecra, who was living with her boyfriend, Omar Lali, at a private residence in Shella on Lamu Island, fell down a flight of stairs on Tuesday, April 28. She had arrived early April to visit boyfriend Omar.

A related report further said that on Tuesday last week, Tecra was found unresponsive at the bottom of the staircase leading to their cottage by neighbours, who reportedly woke Lali. He was apparently asleep, unaware Tecra lay unconscious at the staircase.

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“Witnesses said blood was oozing from her nose and mouth though many were unable to explain how she fell, or what could have triggered the fall,” a report in another local daily said.

The Star newspaper further said that, upon receiving news of her daughter’s accident, Tecra’s mother, Tabitha Karanja, chartered a private chopper that airlifted her for treatment at the Nairobi Hospital on April 27, from where she died on Saturday. “Friends, who did not want to be named, claimed she was conscious at the time she was airlifted to Nairobi,” the paper reported. She was in ICU for three days before she passed on.

Tabitha and Karanja have four children — James Karanja, Anerlisa Muigai, Edward Muigai and Tecra Muigai. Tecra Muigai Accident.