A popular Catholic priest of Nyabondo Catholic Church is dead. The deceased priest was called Father Evans Oduor Juma. His home parish was Sigomre( Ugunja Constituency)
Father Evans Juma Oduor was found unconscious by good Samaritans near a sugarcane plantation at Chiga Market Centre in Muhoroni Sub-county, about 30 kilometres from his Nyabondo Convent Residence. His burnt car was found some five kilometres away.
Police took him to Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital where he died hours later. County Police Commander John Kamau said:
“Our officers found the man unconscious and he could not speak. He could not be identified so he was booked at the hospital as an unknown patient. He had injuries on the face and hands, and we are still following up on leads that could help us investigate the issue,”
Dr. Juliana Otieno the Superintendent at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital also expounded:
“The patient got to our facility at 11 pm, and we did a CT Scan and other tests, and we discovered that he had massive injuries to the head. He died at about 1 am,”
Members of the Catholic Church visited the hospital mortuary on Monday wondering the motive behind the murder.A sister at Chiga Convent told The Standard the priest had dropped her at the convent from town at around 8.30 pm prior to his death.
She said that the Catholic priest had a premonition of his death, having shared with her a strange dream. The reason why this death is noteworthy is that the priest had allegedly made an appeal to the government to stop killing members of the Luo community.
May his soul rest in peace.
