Zack Onyango, the brother to James Oyugi Onyango who was hurriedly buried without a burial permit from the area chief in Siaya County.
James Oyugi Onyango who is believed to have succumbed to the novel COVID-19 according to his brother traveled directly from Mombasa heading to Siaya before getting involved in an untimely accident at Awasi along Kisumu-Kericho highway due to his vehicle’s technicalities of a faulty brake.
“James together with his family left Mombasa on Sunday, April 5th on a journey to come home for his leave without having a stopover in Nairobi as claimed in various platforms, he called to let me know that he is passing through without a stop.” Zack Onyango vehemently refuted claims that his brother spent a night in Nairobi, he revealed that his brother spent the night in Kisumu his friend’s place before proceeding to Siaya the next day.
“Everything was okay with him until the eventual accident at Awasi on April 6th, as he was speeding trying to beat the 7 pm curfew,” Zack added. “After the accident his wife called our cousin Francis Ochieng who resides in Kisumu, who picked them up with a different vehicle, taking them to his place before they eventually proceeded to Siaya on Tuesday, April 7th in a different hired vehicle,”
After the accident, James is said to have experienced some chest pains due to the accident but he ignored the discomfort and opened up to his brother, Zack.
“On Thursday night James opened up about his chest on before I got him some medication to help him through the night, as we had to wait for dawn before taking him to hospital,” he narrated.
Zack called two boda boda operators to assist him in transporting his brother to Matibabu Foundation Hospital after he began coughing repeatedly.
At the hospital, nine medics are said to have attended to the victim.
The victim is also said to be suffering from blood pressure and diabetes which may have accelerated his death.
The victim’s family didn’t receive any medical report from the hospital, all they were told by the chief was that James Oyugi Onyango had to be buried immediately and fast thus the impromptu burial James was accorded by health workers from the government who hazmat suits to protect themselves from the alleged Coronavirus(COVID-19) victim.
According to the brother the victim is said to have gone to Siaya General Hospital for chest scans as Matibabu Lacked the requisite equipment, before being transported back to Matibabu Health Centre, where he finally succumbing to chest pains.
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