The special request General Ogolla requested KDF to do for his widow
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Sister to Francis Ogolla reveals that his bother asked the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) to treat his widow, Aileen Ogolla, to a holiday
Sister to Francis Ogolla reveals that his bother asked the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) to treat his widow, Aileen Ogolla, to a holiday.
The late Francis Ogolla left a host of wishes he would like to be fulfilled long after he is long gone according to his sister.
According to his sister, Ogolla asked the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) to treat his widow, Aileen Ogolla, to a holiday, with the choice of the destination remaining with her.
This was revealed by the deceased’s sister Peris Achieng’.
Addressing mourners in Siaya, Peris divulged that her elder brother asked her to address the wish to KDF which he served for decades until his death.
“He told me that after he died, and after his burial, the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) gave my wife the money to go on a holiday. So the ball is in the court of the soldiers,” revealed Peris.
Besides the wish, she also shared that her fallen kin had shown her his preferred site to be buried.
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“He took me to the gravesite and explained there was where he wanted to be buried,” she added.
Other wishes by the late CDF were for him to be buried within 72 hours after his death.
Having died on April 18, his send-off was scheduled for Sunday, April 21.
Further, Ogolla shunned any use of a coffin to bury him, wanting his body to be interred wrapped in sheets.
Ogolla died in a tragic KDF chopper crash on April 18 in Elgeyo Marakwet county.
He died alongside nine other military personnel who were in his company during his working tour of the North Rift region.
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