NAIROBI, Kenya, May 20 — Former President Uhuru Kenyatta has mourned Popsy Bastiana D’Souza, a Seychelles tourism Ambassador and leading tour operator as a warm and passionate person.
Kenyatta who was joined at requiem mass of the spouse of late President Mwai Kibaki’s Personal Assistant Alfred Gotonga said DSouza’s business acumen was greatly admired in the tourism and hospitality industry.
He spoke at St. Austin’s Catholic Church in Nairobi.
D’Souza, popularly called Popsy, was eulogized and celebrated by her family and friends as a warm and passionate person who breathed energy into her environment.
The former President, who nostalgically reminisced their friendship years from back in Amherst College, Massachusetts, together with her husband Alfred and their peers, eulogized Popsy as a loyal and faithful friend who never shied from speaking her mind.
He described her as one who touched the lives of many in different ways.
Other leaders who paid their glowing tributes included the Seychelles President Wavel Ramakalawan, whose condolence was read by a government representative and who eulogized the deceased as one who dispensed her duties diligently and with great enthusiasm.
