Celestine Awuor, a student at KCA university had been a beam of happiness in her last days alive after she had just bagged a job in Eldoret.
With jobs hardly coming by these days, Celestine immediately knew that lady luck had smiled upon her. She was hopeful that this job would help her save for school fees and complete her agriculture studies at KCA.
Like any other folk, on Monday 12th December, she packed up and heeded the job calls. A jovial Celestine boarded a matatu for Eldoret in Nairobi at around 2 pm. She bid her brother goodbye, the driver set his key into the ignition and the journey to the Rift started.
During the journey, Celestine was in constant communication with her brother-in-law who resided in Eldoret. She was going to live with him as she plied her trade.
Last they spoke was at 5 pm, and an elated yet anxious Celestine had informed her kin, Anthony Onyango, that she had arrived in Nakuru town. This was the last that he heard of her.
A while after the call to Celestine, Anthony turned on his TV Set and word on the news was of a terrible road crash in Nakuru. Adrenaline and sense prompted him to call her and check on her well-being. Her phone went unanswered throughout.
“By the time of the news, she was supposed to have arrived. When our calls were unanswered, we knew something was wrong. I told my wife (Celestine’s sister) that I would rush to Nakuru in the morning to see if she was among the injured. I could not sleep,” he said.
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He is yet to come to terms that Celestine is no more after getting involved in the grisly Nakuru Ngata accident. Anthony arrived at the hospital where accident victims had been rushed, but sad news awaited him.
He was referred to the Nakuru City Mortuary where he even had a difficult time identifying Celestine’s body. Luckily, he identified her by the clothes that she wore.
He immediately called Celestine’s brother who she lived with in Nairobi and told him about it, before breaking the news to his wife.
Anthony now pleads with the government and KENHA to work on that stretch where so many accidents occur.
“I have lost a person who was very dedicated to her studies. She was raised by a single mother who struggled to pay school fees but that never deterred her from working hard,” he said.
This article has been adapted from Nation Africa. Nation Africa is a publication of the Nation Media Group.Â
