Local administration state that Mr. Wanyonyi passed away on July 18 2015 despite the 98-year-insistence old’s family’s that the father to more than 95 and husband to many is still alive.
The leaders claim that Wanyonyi passed away while being transported to a hospital in Kitale after becoming “extremely ill.”

A day after Jehova Wanyonyi allegedly passed away, Assistant Chief Paul Bett claimed that he did indeed grant the family the burial permit.
The family members of Wanyonyi who insisted that their father and “god” was still alive turned away the Standard team from his residence in Chemororoch hamlet in the Soy constituency.

Rumors that the so-called god had passed away led to the visit to the compound.

Family members, including some of the 70 wives and kids, started acting violently and expelled the journalists with force, saying they had no place in the compound and that their deity was safe.
When Jehovah was first hospitalized, it was once believed that he had been treated in Cherangany before being sent to Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Eldoret.
Nevertheless, the mystery grew murkier when The Standard was unable to locate his name on the MTRH patient list.