Bishop Korir with US Secretary of State African Affairs Gendayer Frazer visiting internally displaced people during the 2007 post-election violence.[Photo/State.gov]
One of Bishop Cornelius Korir's driver resigned at the height of the post-election violence after he realized that the Bishop constantly put his life in danger to stop the poll clashes, his family has revealed.
Speaking at Eldoret during the Bishop's burial ceremony, the family painted a picture of a man who was so daring, particularly during the clashes.They recounted an incident in Mosoriot near Eldoret where a young man threatened to shoot the Bishop with an arrow when he went there to stop them from fighting.
"What will you gain if you kill me?" the Bishop asked the young man, upon which he withdrew.
At another incident, the Bishop is said to have gone to a hostile region in West Pokot where cattle rustlers were even hostile to government vehicles and constantly fired shots at the vehicles.
When the Bishop's car approached, they noted, the cattle bandits saw it.
"Do not shoot at the car. That car belongs to the Bishop who brings us food," one bandit said to the rest.
Led by Transport PS Eng. John Mosonik who is also the late Bishop's brother-in-law, the family appealed to the faithful to stand with them in building a peace monument in his honour.
They appealed to warring communities in the region to keep peace in honour to the man who was a peace-maker.They noted that the Bishop was a patriot who woke up early to vote on October 26th despite not feeling well.