As Foreign Affairs minister was being buried at his Koru home in modern day Kisumu County on the 24th of February, 1990, everything else was out of order, especially in the Kisumu region.
Ouko had been found dead, shot and partly burnt at the foots of Got Alila, a few metres from his Koru Farm complex eleven days earlier, after going missing the previous night.
As was expected, the government deployed great numbers of the paramilitary General Service Unity (GSU) police branch to maintain order and again, as expected, violence erupted here and there.
Angry crowds chanted anti-Nyayo government slogans as the police chased them away while family members, friends and those who generally loved him cried in pain.
University students directly linked the Head of State Daniel Moi to the murder, chanting ‘’You killed him, you burnt him, now eat him,’’ slogans.
The President pensively watched as Ouko’s widow Cristabel tried to calm the situation.
In Kisumu City, the situation was even worse and ended up in more violence as the mean looking policemen hit protesters with their rungus.
Cases of rape were reported in Nyalenda slums, and tales of women thrown into sufurias of boiling porridge were also told.
Meanwhile, in his vast Muhoroni home, Ouko was buried, though many people remained unsatisfied with the autopsy by government pathologist John Ndakai Kaviti who claimed that the Kisumu lawmaker shot himself in the head and stomach then set himself on fire as a final act of death.
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