Modest lessons we can learn from Yesu wa Tongaren

Eliud Wekesa also known as Yesu Wa Tongaren being escorted with police to Bungoma law courts on May 11, 2023. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

Apart from the erudite legal mind Emmanuel Mumia, I know of no other notable person who hails from land of Tongaren other than Eliud Wekesa popularly known as Yesu wa Tongaren. Indeed, a valid case may be properly made that Tongaren's current legislator John Murumba Chikati is less known than Yesu wa Tongaren.

It is also a truth universally acknowledged that lessons of profound significance can always be drawn from such men who possess an allure to the public eye in a unique sense. Indeed, history has great examples like Miriam Makeba, Maina wa Nalukale, Fela Kuti and Fyodor Dostoevsky whose lives lessons of great importance can be drawn. In Yesu was Tongaren, there are drilled into his character some good lessons of plain commonsense - a rather unusual attribute of modern-day preachers.