Michael Oyier Is Dead

Former KTN news anchor Michael Oyier dies while receiving treatment at a Nairobi hospital, family confirms.

Oyier had collapsed in his Lavington house in Nairobi on Wednesday April 17 and was admitted to a city hospital as he complained of severe headache.

He passed away on Thursday 2:30pm while receiving treatment.

A postmortem has been scheduled to ascertain the cause of his death.

Oyier worked as an anchor and presenter at Standard Group for nine years before exiting in 2012.

At the time of his death, Mr. Oyier was working as a a qualified and practicing Counselling Psychologist, a certified and credentialed Executive Leadership and Group and Team Coach, and a Communications Aficionado dedicated to helping individuals and businesses succeed.

Oyier’s life post TV

As a newscaster, Michael Oyier had a very visible public life. He was at the helm of his career as a newscaster and he was really good at it. In private however, there were things going on that led him to a question who he had become, and the private struggles that he was dealing with.

The struggle of who he had planned to be as a father and what the reality was, unresolved grief.

He fell into deep depression.

This saw him get into a downward spiral that depression is. Darkness and despair gnawed at him. Thank God for the people who refused to give up him.

Friends and family who held onto him and prayed with and for him. People who love him and encouraged him to recovery.