On September 21 mourners gathered at Mumias, Kakamega to bid farewell to actress Winnie Bwire Ndubi. Winnie passed away after a long battle with cancer.
A friend to Bwire revealed that Winnie Bwire didn’t talk for a long time. She revealed that Bwire only spoke during a WhatsApp Conference call three hours before her demise.
“I remember we had a WhatsApp conference call three hours before she died. When I was speaking to her mum, I told her to take the phone to Winnie and she said ‘I doubt she will be able to speak.’
I told her to just take the phone lets try, Winnie actually picked, I told her ‘Winnie are you going to fight for us?’ She said ‘Yes, I will fight.’ Little did we know that was the last words she said before she passed on.”
The late actress’s battle with cancer began at a tender age. Winnie discovered a breast cyst at a tender age of 14 years. Doctors assured her family that the cyst would clear after bearing children.
Her mother narrated that the situation didn’t clear as expected,
“It became so bad at certain point that the pain did not go away. That’s when she went for check up and it was confirmed that she had cancer. By the time we went to Turkey it was in her brain, lymph, liver and the stomach…
“She deteriorated in the third month. In Turkey we dint have much time coz thing were not looking good. In that time while we were waiting for treatment she told me she had a conversation with God. She said she told God that ‘If am going to die, let it be now because am going through much pain. But if am going to survive then am ready to hold on. But if am going to go through this pain and still die then let it be now,”