How soldier’s call to wife lined him for sniper bullet

Doreen Magak, widow of the late Lieutenant Edward Juma Okoyo.

By Paul Wafula and Nyambega Gisesa

Kenya: It is pitch dark and Kenya Defence Force’s platoon Commander Lieutenant Edward Juma Okoyo is in the muddy trenches of Somalia. As with every African night, the chirping of crickets filled the air, while perhaps, a few of the soldiers who were not on night-watch, snored gently inside their jungle-green sleeping bags.