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Father had only sold shamba three days earlier to pay his fee at Garissa University College.

Evans Yamboko's burial
Evans Yamboko's burial

The funeral service for Evans Yamboko, 20, the fourth-born in a family of seven, was conducted on a shamba his father had sold only three days earlier to pay his fee at Garissa University College.

Three days later, young Evans was among the 142 students who were felled by a hail of bullets in one of the most heinous terrorist attacks on Kenyan soil.

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