Patrick Mbacio

Patrick Mbacio, a Kenyan content creator known online as Patrick The Truth, was found dead at his home in Nakuru, Kenya, with his death widely reported on 26 and 27 September 2026. He had built a large following on TikTok through livestreams and videos that centred on his relationships and interactions with women, a persona that made him one of the more talked about and divisive figures on Kenya's social media scene.

Mbacio's online fame rested on a controversial premise. He filmed much of his content from a modest bedsitter and repeatedly claimed to have hosted well over a thousand women over the years, with some reports citing figures as high as 1,200. The claim drew a large audience and sharp criticism in equal measure, and it became the defining feature of his public identity. Before social media prominence he had worked as a taxi driver in the Nakuru area, according to local accounts that later traced how he moved from ferrying passengers into the online world that made his name.

In the weeks before his death, attention shifted from that persona to his health. In August 2026 he addressed rumours about a noticeable change in his appearance by saying he was living with diabetes and high blood pressure, and he urged followers not to be frightened away from him. In early September he made an emotional public appeal to women he said he had previously hosted or helped financially, asking them to assist with money for medication, fruit and other basic needs. He also spoke about hospitalisation and about people who had stopped visiting him after rumours about HIV and AIDS circulated online, insisting that diabetes and blood pressure should not keep people away.

He was last seen publicly during a TikTok livestream roughly two days before his body was discovered. When neighbours in Nakuru did not see him for an extended period, they grew concerned and forced their way into his home, where they found him dead. News of his death spread rapidly on Kenyan social media from the evening of Saturday, 26 September 2026, into Sunday, 27 September. His body was taken to Egerton University Mortuary. As of the first mainstream reports, the circumstances of his death remained unclear and no official medical cause had been published.

Tributes and debate followed across TikTok and Kenyan news sites including The Star, K24 and Nairobi News. For admirers he was a frank, larger than life online personality. For critics he embodied a form of content that treated private relationships as spectacle. Both views place him among the most recognisable Kenyan TikTok figures of the mid 2020s, and among the first of that cohort whose death became a national news story.