Two more emails .....

.... one from the Kenyan friend I quoted yesterday; he tells me that he and his family are on lock-down in their house in Nairobi.   I assume that he is typical of many Luo living in what is mostly an 'opposition' area, fearing what might happen if he goes out on the streets.  

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And another email, from an ex-Kenya retired priest friend in Holland, tells me that a priest has been murdered near Kisumu.   I checked in the Daily Nation and found this report:-



"A Catholic priest died on Monday night after he was found unconscious near a sugar plantation in Kisumu East. Father Evans Juma Odour, the Presiding Priest of Nyabondo Parish in Nyakach, was found unconscious with deep cuts on the head, face and hands. He was rushed to Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital where he was pronounced dead.


The cleric is said to have been carjacked and tortured by unknown assailants who dumped him at the sugar plantation then drove his car to a different location and set it ablaze.


According to a relative who did not want to be named the priest had dropped her at Chiga and was on his way back to Nyabondo when he was accosted by his killers. Shocked congregants took to social media and expressed their anger at the manner in which the cleric was felled. ”Why kill the man of God, it is so sad. We were recently with him at a funeral of a relative, very calm and collected man,” said Jane Nyagingo."

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... and then there is the report about the non-fatal shooting of the driver/body-guard of a deputy chief justice ....

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I weep for Africa –

Whose mountains are scarred by greed

And whose deltas are slick with corruption

Because power is like cancer.