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Kenyan Adventist Pastor Lynched, Burned in Senseless Attack
« on: January 09, 2014, 04:44:56 AM »
Kenyan Adventist Pastor Lynched, Burned in Senseless Attack
Evans Orina Osugo, 60, had served area for decades
Posted January 7, 2014

BY ADVENTIST REVIEW staff

A January 10, 2014, burial is scheduled for Seventh-day Adventist pastor Evans Orina Osugo, who was killed December 29, 2013, after being attacked on the Kenlands housing estate near Nakuru Township, Kenya.

Osugo, 60, had most recently been a pastor in the Central Rift Conference in Kenya, most recently in the Kaptembwo district. He began his service to the church in 1989 as a literature evangelist. At the same time, Osugo attended Kamagambo ministerial college and began serving as a district pastor upon completion of his studies in 1991. He was married to Jane N. Osugo and has four children, all of whom survive.

According to Catherine Ontiti, communication director for the East Kenya Union, Osugo had gone to a local “supermarket to buy some items and on his way out met with some people who operate transport people with motor bikes- here commonly known as boda boda. They started harassing him with some taking his groceries while others searched his pockets.”

Osugo “happened to know one of them as one whom he usually hires too transport him and he asked him why he was part of the gang that was harassing him, Ontiti said. However, that “man started shouting that [the] pastor was a thief and had stolen a motorcycle. When [Osugo] sensed the danger, he decided to jump over a fence to the neighboring home; by that time the group dragged him to the road and lynched him.”


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