The sister of late KCB executive Rosemary Chemutai Koech has read excerpts from a notebook she identified as belonging to Koech, containing personal reflections on her work, achievements and efforts.
The excerpts were read out by Koech’s sister during her funeral service.
In the notebook, Koech wrote about the effort she had invested in things she had built and her inability to enjoy some of the results of that work.
She also wrote about her concerns over being unable to enjoy the fruits of her work with her children and referred to a situation in which she felt someone else was more entitled to what she had worked for.
Koech also wrote about uncertainty over whether she would be able to achieve the same things again, and described feeling “betrayed and used” and “undervalued by the people I gave my all” to.
In another section, she wrote about her belief that hard work should be respected and that she had expected her efforts to earn her respect.
Koech died on August 21, 2026, aged 40.
She had served as KCB Bank Group’s Head of Data Protection and worked in the technology, fintech, legal and data protection sectors.
The excerpts are presented as personal reflections attributed to Koech’s notebook and do not, on their own, establish the circumstances surrounding her death.
Here are the excerpts as read out by Koech’s sister from the notebook:
"What is stressing me; the fact that I worked so hard on something and I am unable to enjoy it; the fact that I worked so hard on something and someone feels more entitled to it; the fact that I worked so hard on something and I can't enjoy it with my children; the fact that I worked so hard on something and I may never be refunded; the fact that I worked so hard on something else, and someone may enjoy my hard work; the fact that I worked so hard on something and I'm not sure if I will ever be able to achieve the same again; the fact that I worked so hard on something and I feel betrayed and used; the fact that I do not know how the comparative will go; the fact that I feel undervalued by the people I gave my all, the fact that I feel that hard work should be respected, I believe; the fact that I thought that hard work would earn me respect; the fact that I should not have been tougher and demanded more respect, but knowing me, this would have been exhaustive, not how I am at all.
Funny thing is that I do not care for the relationship, the marriage, the previous partnerships and friendships; it is about the things that I have built. This makes things easier to deal with because I replace the thing, then I feel much better."
