Two good friends, were among those who lost their lives in the Dusit D2 Hotel terror attack.
Abdallah Dahir and Feisal Ahmed, who are set to be buried later in the day were having lunch when the terrorists, linked to Islamist group Al-Shabaab, sprayed bullets on their table.
Mr Dahir, a Wajir County native and a communication officer of Adam Smith NGO housed at the 14 Riverside while Mr Ahmed, who was born and bred in Nairobi’s South C area, graduated from a Sudan university with a degree in communications.
Mr Ahmed, popularly known as Zola, wedded the love of his life recently.
One of the two men’s close kin, Yasin Njama, confirmed news about the friends’ death.
Mr Njama, a businessman in Nairobi, eulogised the two men as “really good people”.
“They were really good people. They were born and raised in Kenya. One of them was the sole bread winner of a family of around 23 people. One had a bachelor’s degree while the other had a master’s degree. One of the two men tied the knot recently with his partner, and was yet to have a baby with her.
We have lost very good people, who were extremely hardworking and played an important role in nation-building,” Mr Njama told Citizen TV at Chiromo Funeral Home, where he had gone to collect the bodies of Mr Ahmed and Mr Dahir.