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He left more than 22 years ago for Mombasa with a promise to return with goodies

 

In 1993, Geoffrey Madiga Oleve, then popularly known as Offins in his village of Ikumba, Maragoli, bid his family goodbye as he left for Mombasa where he had landed a lucrative job. He left with the promise that he would be back soon with goodies.

He had assured his family that he would be back to help his two siblings - Brown Siloya and Mary Sakwa - and to buy their single mother, Beatrice Oleve a shamba to build her a decent house.

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