His Excellency, Ambassador Tom Amolo, on behalf of Kenyans in Pretoria, Johannesburg and the greater Gauteng, conveys his deep and heartfelt condolence to the Lugho family for the sudden loss of a promising, bright and young Kenyan with great potential.

The family informs that John Michael Lugho was born on 22^nd November 1991, a normal healthy child. He was initially diagnosed with rheumatic heart condition in 2002. John underwent 2 heart operations, at Mater Hospital, Nairobi to rectify the ailment, but the doctors could not be able to completely resolve it. He joined his father in the South African Republic in 2008 to pursue his studies as well as seek superior medical facilities. He has been seeing Dr. Mc Kibbin at Sunninghill Hospital and has been on medication according to the advice given by the doctors.

Despite the above, John Lugho, upon arriving in South Africa, continued his studies at Blue Hills College- Midrand from Grade 11 in 2009. John was an outstanding student at Blue Hills College, who performed excellently as could be seen by his 2010 metric results where he obtained 6 distinctions and 2 credits of the 8 subjects he undertook. He was very keen on the sciences and wanted to do cardiology so that he could understand his condition better to be able to assist other patients with the same condition.