When his obituary first appeared in the Daily Nation on Monday this week, it was just two sentences long. That seemed like too little to say about the former Kenya Bureau of Standards (Kebs) boss in death. But there is definitely plenty to say about his life.
It would take another glance at the obituary pages to verify that indeed, Sammy Kioko Mang’eli was the person being eulogised even after a more detailed advert was published two days later on Wednesday.