Writes Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City

Residents of Dago Nyahera Kogada a village which is located on the outskirt of Kisumu City were all of a sudden plunged into the mourning mood following the death of a 31 year old villager after the encounter with an eight feet long fierce African tropical Black Mamba snake,

Washington Juma Orure Kaoko31 and a father of three was resting inside his parent’s home when the children of a neighboring home raised the alarming saying they were being attacked by an aggressive serpent which had slithered into their homestead.

Orure Kaoko decided to rush to the scene, which was only 30 yards outside his parent’s home fence to the rescue of the children. His mother, however, cautioned him against confronting a an aggressive snake with stones and that he needed something better like a walking stick, but the deceased ignore the advice of his mother and rushed to the scene.

Upon entering the next home the deceased found the children who had raised the alarm were throwing stone at the snake near a fence. He too wanted to kill it with the two stones, which he had picked up at his homestead. The snake retaliated aggressively and chased them back, but as they were running while escaping the possible fatal attack, the deceased slipped and fall down to the ground.

He black mamba which was on a full flight just running on its tail with its head raised as high as six feet high while hissing loudly jumped over him fatally giving him a fatal bite to the waist, shoulder and on the head.

The deceased managed to stand on his feet, but instead of seeking help for transport to the neighbor or going straight to the hospital went to his house and lay on his bed take an afternoon zester w while the snake’s venom penetrated his destroying all the important body organs. It was the small children who went to hid at home and informe his parents how the deceased had suffered snake bite. He Was rushed to St Monica Catholic Mission hospital six kilometers away, but the doctor refused to admit him a saying he was almost as good as dead.

The deceased was the youngest brother of a prominent Kisumu business tycoon Mr Gordon Kaoko who firm known as the Gulf Fitters and contractors.

The body was immediately removed from the Kisumu District hospital morgue and take to the star hospital mortuary for preservation ending the burial arrangement.

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