The forgotten miner: Two months later no one remembers Tom Okwach

Tom Okwach (inset) was trapped when a mining shaft collapsed in Abimbo, Bondo sub-County of Siaya on December 2, 2021. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

For more than two months, Joyce Ocholla has lived every parent’s worst nightmare.

On December 2, 2021, Tom Okwach and other seven miners were trapped when a mining shaft collapsed in Abimbo, Bondo sub-County of Siaya.