A prominent hotelier died on Sunday evening after her vehicle plunged into a man-made dam inside Nyahururu Golf club.

Milicent Thuita, who was described by friends as a moderate speed driver, was driving towards Nyahururu town after visiting her brother-in-law in Maili Saba when she lost control of the vehicle and plunged into the dam that formed after excavation of murram was left uncovered.

 A retired teacher Peter Mungai said the deceased drove to Maili Saba after attending Sunday service at the Nyahururu PCEA church.

 “She used not to drive fast and it remains a mystery how the vehicle went off the road and landed in the water 30 metres away after smashing a wire mesh fence of the club,” Mungai said.

 Thuita, who operated Emms hotel, died at the Nyahururu County hospital where she had been rushed after she was pulled from the water by a boda boda rider who dived in after learning of the accident from an eye witness.

 In 2023, a Form One student at Ndururumo High School in Nyahururu town, Stallion Kipletting Bett, was found dead in the same dam after he went missing from the school for two weeks.

The decomposing body of Kipletting was discovered by a club worker who alerted the management.

 Two years earlier, three children drowned at another dam that is located inside the Golf Club.

The boys aged between 7 and 10 years from Maina village, among them twins, had ventured into the Club compound to have a glimpse at a helicopter that had ferried President William Ruto (then DP) to the area.

 The chopper had landed at the golf club grounds before Dr Ruto proceeded by road to Ndaragwa Township, several kilometres from Nyahururu town.

 The twins were reported to have decided to swim at the dam after failing to see the chopper. While the third boy drowned as he was trying to rescue the two.

 On May 6, 2018, two minors aged 10 and 12 years drowned while trying to swim in an abandoned Kichinjio quarry at Ngomongo estate on the outskirts of Nyahururu town.

 On September 8, 2015 three secondary school students drowned and died after a swimming expedition at an abandoned quarry turned tragic.

 The two form two and one form four students from Thiru secondary school in Sironi location in Laikipia west Sub County, who had been sent away for school fees, had gone to swim at HCZ Quarry dam when the incident occurred.