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Why Kasipul mourns, but also exhales after Were's death

The late Kasipul Member of Parliament Charles Ong'ondo Were. [File, Standard]

The streets of Kasipul were silent. Not out of mourning, but out of something more complex-relief, fear, and a cautious curiosity. When news broke that the area Member of Parliament Charles Ong'ondo Were had been assassinated just outside the National Assembly gates, emotions erupted not with uniform grief, but with jarring contrast.

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