This archive report was first published on 20 August 2019.
On August 20, 2019, Kenya National Union of Nurses secretary general Seth Panyako and a section of leaders from the Kisii community called for the immediate investigation of Kisumu governor Anyang Nyong'o and members of his kitchen cabinet over the brutal murder of a nurse Ferdinand Ondieki two weeks ago.
Ondieki was working in Kisumu county when he was brutally murdered. His body was badly mutilated, and the head was chopped off when it was discovered.
Speaking during the burial of Ondieki at his home at Endemu village in Borabu constituency in Nyamira county, Panyako claimed that Ondieki had been killed by the county government of Kisumu because of his stand in championing and defending the rights and the welfare of the nurses fraternity in Kisumu county.
The late Ondieki was the vice-chairman of Knun in Kisumu county and until his demise, he was working at Riati Health Centre. He had received several death threats before he was finally killed.
Over 1000 nurses drawn from all branches in the country castigated those behind the killing of their colleague, with tempers flaring during the burial.
Area MCA Samuel Nyarango was forced to cut his speech short when he made a slur which did not go down well with the nurses.
