Society officials to hang for killing aid agency worker

On March 31, 2008, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) put up a notice informing the public that it was relocating its offices from Lokichogio in Turkana to Juba in South Sudan.

This announcement set in motion a series of events that would hatch a conspiracy to kill Silence Chirara, who was working for the World Food Programme and based in Lokichogio town. David Eipa chaired Lokichogio Multipurpose Cooperative Society, which had been benefiting from contracts to supply services like water, sewerage, electricity and security for the aid agency and the exit of Unicef left him jittery.