This archive report was first published on 16 August 2019.
On August 12, 2019, a tragic incident occurred in Bosaso Port, the commercial capital of the autonomous Puntland State of Somalia, where a 41-year-old Kenyan man, Cosmas Joseph Owuor, was shot dead by a hotel security guard.
According to his father, Pius Ogweyo, the family received news of Owuor's killing after another Kenyan working at the same hotel phoned the deceased's wife.
"We have very scanty information about what exactly happened on that fateful Monday morning. We only understand that there was a small misunderstanding between my son and the gateman," Ogweyo said.
The family from Bondo, Siaya County, has appealed to the government, through the Kenyan Embassy in Puntland, to help them ferry Owuor's body to Kenya for interment and to seek justice for his killing.
"We are not able to raise the money to transport the body of our son back to the country. That is why we are asking the government to come to our aid," Ogweyo added.
