Powerful Foreign Affairs minister and renowned economist Zachary Onyonka survived death by a whisker in 1983 deadly campaigns, recalls Prof Nyachieo Bogonko.
The Minister, who would later pass on in 1996, was facing stiff competition from one John Bosco.
And at Migori-Kisumu junction in Kitutu West, Onyonka was confronted by Bosco's supporter identified as Ouru Ndege with a sword. Bosco had campaigned in the region minutes earlier.
Sensing that the minister was in real danger, security guards shot dead the opponent causing fracas that lasted for hours.
With the minister operating without vehicle, a Matatu driver, Joseph Nyambariga, evacuated Onyonka who would later be arrested and charged with murder at Kodiaga prison.
During the polls, Onyonka won by landslide and would later take the position in parliament after he was acquitted.
He was the farther to the current Kitutu Chache South MP Richard Onyonka, who apparently, just like the father, served in the foreign ministry.
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