He was a typical Luo man, living the typical life of a Luo, as we have long since accepted from the stereotypical tribal jokes. Unbeknown to them he was a gangster.
Brandon Ochieng’ was a student at the Rift Valley Technical Training Institute (RVTTI) and lived in one of the estates in Sugunanga, Eldoret.
Kibe, one of the tenants in the estates Ochieng’ lived, recalls how he had a lot of electronic devices – woofers, and televisions.
“He had like three woofers at any given time and plenty of televisions. He was quite extravagant, and ate meat almost every day,” Kibe says.
It never registered to them to question his lifestyle, after all, he was a Luo. Other than that he was quite generous with his ‘friends.’
“He would send you to the shop to buy something and tell you to keep the change. Sometimes he would leave you more than Sh200,“ Kibe intimates.
Another trait of his was that he loved to use people. Kibe says that he would send you to the shop to by whatever food he wanted and asked you to cook. After you’ have cooked, you ate together.
It was until police showed up at the plot, where they discovered that Ochieng had been a criminal all along. The gadgets he had were proceeds of crime, and owners were asked to identify them.
Ochieng’ had been gunned down in Kakamega where, together with his accomplices, had stolen a car. The tenants were dumbfounded by the revelations, some saying that he had been a good man all along.
It later emerged that the man had been carrying out robberies together with others during the night, and would come back before dawn with proceeds of crime where he stashed them in his single room. It is this electronics that people who visited him assumed were what made one a typical Luo.
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