Apart from burying the man who mentored and taught him how to make money in a gold and diamond encrusted coffin, Sonko also made sure that his late father is ferried by a convoy of more than 60 top of the range cars and 10 outriders from the mortuary to his final resting place at Mua Hills Farm in Mavoko, Machakos County, at least one last time.
However, on their way from the mortuary on Tuesday to the burial site, something unexpected and out of the ordinary happened along Mombasa Road as two of the vehicles in the convoy were involved in an accident, leaving many injured and causing a heavy traffic snarl up.
It took the intervention of the now disbanded Sonko Rescue Team to attend to the injured and rush them to hospital.
However, according to conservative voices from Ukambani, the accident that involved the vehicles that were ferrying the corpse of Sonko’s father signals a bad omen for the family and must be cleansed before it is too late.
Those who were on his death bed say that Sonko’s father didn’t want to die on that day he passed away while undergoing treatment at Nairobi Hospital. He called his family on his death bed and told them that it was not time for him to die but breathed his last moments later.
