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Mystery deepens over murder of county boss who foresaw his end

Friends and relatives mourn the late Donny Opar, Homa Bay CEC member for transport and infrastructure. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

A day before his death, murdered Homa Bay County Executive Committee member Philemon Donny Opar had sent a desperate appeal to authorities to arrest members of a gang he claimed was plotting to harm him, the Sunday Standard can reveal. 

Opar, the county’s CEC designate for Transport and Infrastructure complained on Thursday that a gang using a motorcycle had been stalking him and even tried to break into his home at Apida in Karachuonyo Sub-county last week.

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