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Kitengela mother mourns son killed days to his birthday

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Rose Ochieng and her late son, Walter Habil Ogano(inset).

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For 31 years, every October 2 has been a day of joy for Rose Ochieng — the day she celebrated the birthday of her firstborn son, Walter Habil Ogano.

But this year, instead of baking a cake, she sat numbly on a wooden bench at Shalom Community Hospital mortuary, her world shattered.