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Kenyans mourn General Ogolla's fall with many thoughts in mind

Barrack Muluka

By Barrack Muluka | Apr 20, 2024

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**President William Ruto signs a condolence book of the late Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Francis Ogolla at his River Side Residence Nairobi.** [PCS]

Life often teases you with a profound sense of sadness and despair. The feeling is especially overwhelming in seasons of wastage of life. What begins like a cheeky rumour, in the Age of Digital Fakery and Quackery, steadily morphs into harsh reality.

Suddenly, the ugly disruptiveness of death pervades the entire space. It holds an entire nation in a tight grip of shock and despondency. The whole world is shaken. The general is dead. Gone in the style of the great Dag Hammarskjold in the Congo, in 1961.

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