Village in mourning after crash claims its first law student

@singoeijoylene

The upsurge in road carnages on our roads is worrying. It always leaves a trail of devastation and loss to victims and their families, friends and communities. Today, a community is in mourning after it lost its first law student. Amos Powon was among those killed in the Thursday horrific accident at Eldama Ravine junction along Eldoret-Nakuru Highway.

Amos, a second law student at Moi University Eldoret, boarded the ill-fated Nairobi bound North Rift Shuttle to attend the passing out of his brother at Administration Police Training college in Embakasi.

This was never to be, the journey was cut short after their vehicle was involved in a head collision with a trailer that dragged them for 40 metres before it came to a halt. When it stopped, 11 people had perished on the spot. They died a painful death. There was only one survivor from the matatu. The driver of the lorry and his turn boy vanished after the accident leaving behind a man who had boarded the lorry.

The late Amos hails from Lomut location in West Pokot County. This is a region that has never had a lawyer; he was destined to be the first lawyer in the location and a second in the entire Chesegon division. The community was upbeat; there was a legal mind in the pipeline. They knew he would champion for their rights and probably deliver them from the yoke of marginalization.