Kenya's first Education minister Lawrence Sagini predicted his own death at the burial Tabitha Moige, a wife to his colleague James Nyamweya in July 1995.
At the funeral, recalls Julius Nyachieo, a jovial Sagini, an independence hero, urged mourners to turn in larger numbers 'just like those at Nyamweya's home'.
Exactly a week later, Sagini's car could crash on his way to Kisii from Nairobi and would be buried just two weeks after Moige's funeral.
"Mzee gave a passionate speech on why the Gusii region had dragged behind development despite the availability of resources.
"He urged locals to invest in education. And in his parting shot, he urged mourners to come to his funeral in numbers," Nyachieo said.
During the early years of independence Kenya, Sagini was credited for revolutionalising education sector in the country through bilateral talks with other countries.
And in 1969, he would lose to a 25-year-old man, Zachary Onyonka, who would also become Foreign Affairs minister and lead Kitutu West constituency until 1996.
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