Sometime after the crack of dawn on the Wednesday of December 16, 2009, Peter Basil Lawrence Omilo Oduol lay in a hospital bed at the New Nyanza provincial hospital in Kisumu, Kenya, where his wife Scholastica had been watching him struggle to breathe the whole night.
At around six o 'clock that morning, Peter peacefully gave up his struggle to breathe to be with his family and quietly went to be with his maker.
While on the bed, he was awaiting results for various diagnostic tests done on him the previous evening before a doctor could embark on treating him.
Apparently, he had been diagonized with kidney failure. He was as well suffering from high blood pressure and an arraignment of other ailments including typhoid.
He had struggled to stay alive and complete the work that the Lord our God has set out to him on this earth but it turned out that the 65 years he had lived were all that the Almighty had planned for him.
This earth is truly not our home.
Peter, was born in a lakeside village of Majanji in Eastern Uganda where his parents late Basil Oduol and late Agnes Nafula lived on 6th November 1944.
Basil had just returned home after taking part in the Second World War.
Later on in the early 1950's when Peter was barely 10, Basil passed away.
Now a widow and with several other children including those she bore in her previous marriage, Nafula set out to retun to Western Kenya where she was born to live with her brothers including Obuya and Ajala.
Most of Peter's siblings also passed on living him with only one half brother, the late Gilbert Ogomo Owiya, a retired senior police officer who passed on in December 2008 after a long battle with diabetes.
At his uncles' ancenstral home in Nambuku, Peter attended Lugalla primary school during his formative years in school then later on joined Sigalame Intermediate School for his elementary education.
While schooling at Sigalame, he shifted from Nambuku to live with his parternal aunt Manjeri Muliebi in Kadimbworo, Southern Samia, in Kenya's Busia County.
He was disciplined and an extreem hard worker who also knew well how to relate with others according to the christian faith he professed.
While at school, he exceled in English and Religious studies.After passing his KPE exams with flying colours, it emerged that he was the only boy from the Sigalame community to be selected to join high school, hence his teachers and clansmen called him "The Cock of Kadimbworwo".
Being a catholic, he was called to join Butula Boys High School but since the school was yet to be built, he and othersselected to join the school had to go to Amukura High School first then shif back to Butula later on when construction work was at an advanced stage.
At Amukura, he shared the same dormitory with current cabinet minister Fred Gumo.
His mother and uncles had to engage in farming cotton to raise his school fees. later on, his brother Gilbert paid for his fees after he was recruited to the Kenya Police Force as a constable.
While at Butula, his fellow students called him Abraham, partly because of his strict observance of Christian values and also because he used to own a pair of khaki shorts slightly bigger for his size, a fact that enthusiazed his colleagues.
Apparently, his brother Gilbert had intentionally bought him the bigger shorts so that he could 'grow to fit in them properly' hence saving on buying a new pair.
During holidays, he used to stay with a martenal aunt Ndege who had been married in Butula. It is understandable that he was later to marry the love of his life, Scholastica, whose family lived not very far from Ndege's place.
He then...
