It now emerges that former Cabinet Minister for Foreign Affairs and Kisumu MP Robert Ouko predicted his death three days in advance.
Ouko would later be found dead at the foot of Got Alila in Koru, Muhoroni in Kisumu County on February 13, 1990.
His mutilated body was found by a herds boy named Paul Shikuku and was partly burnt, a few kilometres from his Koru Complex home.
According to Esau Omollo, a resident who was young at the time of the death, Ouko caused fear at the AIC Koru Church on Sunday February 11.
He reportedly predicted his death when he was asked to address the congregation.
He said that Ouko opted to read Job 7:1-14, after which he wiped tears flowing from his eyes, just like a man aware of what awaited him days later.
“On Sunday February 11, 1990, the minister attended a church service at AIC Koru and he asked to address the congregation,” Mr Omollo told the Nation.
“He opened the Bible and read Job 7:1-14. There was silence in the church. The minister occasionally stopped reading and wiped tears from his eyes," he added.
"Human life is like forced army service, like a life of hard manual labour, like a slave longing for cool shade; like a worker waiting to be paid. When I lie down to sleep, the hours drag.
I toss all night and long for dawn. My body is full of worms. It is covered with scabs. Pus runs out of my sores. Remember, O God, my life is only a breath; my happiness has already ended," the verse reads.
Shikuku found a can of acid, spectacles, a walking stick and a gun next to Ouko's body.
The government under then President Daniel Moi later dispatched detectives to pursue the case, but the killers remain at large.