Zimbabwean businessman Wicknell Chivayo and his wife were killed in a helicopter crash, with burial arrangements announced this weekend. The couple died with other passengers.
President William Ruto sent condolences to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and to the families.
The crash has drawn wide attention in southern Africa because of Chivayo’s public profile.
In Kenya, former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua used a diaspora meeting in Boston to claim, without presenting evidence, that Chivayo had held large sums linked to President Ruto and the 2027 race. Those claims have not been independently verified.
Investigators in Zimbabwe are expected to examine the cause of the accident separately from the political claims now circulating in Kenya.
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