ABAKHONE IN LEADERSHIP: CARDINAL MAURICE OTUNGA

 Cardinal Otunga Born the son of a traditional paramount chief of the Bukusu, Wasike Lusweti Sudi, and diviner Rosa Namisi. He was of bakhoone clan.
See this link for details:  http://www.resurrectiongarden.org/cardinal-otunga/biography/

Cardinal Otunga









He was born on January 31, 1923 in Chebukwa, Kakamega Diocese in western Kenya.
On giving birth to him, Namisi named her son Simiyu, which signifies “one who is born during the hot and dry season.” On coming to see his infant son, however, Chief Sudi was impressed by his face and chose to call him instead Otunga, which refers to a staff which supports the old or lame. It was a name that would prophetically point towards the infant’s future work. 


However, the association of the name Otunga with staff for supporting the lame and elderly walk is somehow erroneous because Otunga, was one of his descendants, a wealth man of abakhoone clan called Otunga was an uncle and guardian to Ekobi, cardinal's great great grand father.  (Ekobi was the father of Khisa. Khisa was the father of Namachanja. Namachanja was the father of Wasike Lusweti Sudi who was the father of Cadrinal Otunga see a later post on Chief Sudi Namachajna).

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Mama Rosa Namisi and Paramount Chief Wasike Lusweti Sudi Namachanja




Cardinal Otunga, Archbishop Emeritus of Nairobi, Kenya's first  died early on Saturday morning. He was 81. Among the first to arrive at the Mater Mesericordiae Hospital in Nairobi where he was admitted two months ago, were the Apostolic Nuncio to Kenya, His Excellency, Archbishop Giovanni Tonucci, and Rt Rev David Kamau, an Auxiliary Bishop of Nairobi. Fr Emmanuel Ngugi who is in charge of the Holy Family Basilica, in Nairobi informed the Catholic Information Service Africa of the Cardinal's death. Source: CISA

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