Reports Leo Odera Omolo
Francis Ombuor Osumba a Kenyan working a a technician in Juba South Sudan has died mysteriously, according t faint information reaching his family back home in Rangwe constituency, Homa-Bay County ,the decease died early last week after short illness.
The south Sudan were reported as treating the Kenyan death a police case, and were waiting for a post-mortem examination to be performed before the active investigation to unearth the cause of his death started.
Prior to moving to the South Sudan a couple of years ago,Mr Osumba who is in his early 40s had worked as an instructor/lecturer at the Eldoret Polytechnic before he was transferred to Kitale Polytechnic I the same capacity. He had also worked briefly at the Kisumu based Ramogi Institute Advanced Technology .{RIAT}.near Asumbi Teachers Training College in Rangwe constituency, within Homa-Bay County and was the son of a prominent businessman in Rangwe Mr Elly Osumba Ombuor.
According to very faint information reaching his family, Mr Osumba died on Monday last week. A neighbor when his return to the building which they were sharing as neighbors late in the afternoon, the neighbor found the decease had already died while seated on a sofa-seat.
Kenyan friends, neighbors and relatives living Juba had a hard tem akin the tentative arrangement to fly the body from Juba to Nairobi and hen to Kisumu this Monday, but could ill-afford the enormous of flying the body home, which they reported to be was so exorbitant and estimated to be around Kshs 112,000and have since opted to bring the body home by road via Uganda and exercise which could take three or four more days before the body arrives at home.
The deceased s the son-in-law of the Kisumu based veteran journalist Leo Odera Omolo. Together with Mr.Omolo’s daughter Rebecca Atieno the couple were blessed wit four young sos all attending a primary school in heir rural home in Rangwe while Rebecca is a trader at Rapogi Market in Uriri distict, Migori County
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Pole bwana Leo and the bereaved family. Sudan is turning out to be another killer place for Kenya