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The soldier who predicted his own death

The late Private Jasper Onguso.[PHOTO: STANDARD/COURTESY]

By PAUL WAFULA and NYAMBEGA GISESA

NAIROBI, KENYA: There is only one reason why scores of military officers in uniform arrived at Joseph Onguso Nyabanga’s home in Nyamira County on that gloomy day  in 2012. His son, Private Jasper Onguso, 26, was dead.

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