Ambassador Ahenda: Dedicated diplomat who served with pride

Kenya Ambassador to Qatar Paddy Ahenda during the vetting process before the National Assembly Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Kenya’s Ambassador to Qatar Patrick Paddy Cornel Ahenda was, in Nigerian Laureate Chinua Achebe’s words, “the chick that will grow into a cockerel that was spotted the very day it hatched”.

The author may as well have been referring to the envoy, who was a former Kasipul-Kabondo Member of Parliament (MP) in Homa Bay County, and was the 2013 and 2017 Orange Democratic Party (ODM) Nyanza presidential coordinator and campaigner.