Mr. Michael Osumba, a Kenya-Stockholmer, is in critical condition in Kenya after suffering a second stroke attack. According to reports reaching KSB, Mr. Osumba has lost his ability to talk. “His condition is not good and we are very worried”, a contact who is close to Mr. Osumba told KSB. “Anything can happen”, she added.
When he left Sweden for Kenya about two years ago, Mr. Osumba appeared healthy and strong but after some months, he suffered a stroke which forced him into a coma for two weeks. When he emerged from coma, he lost his ability to walk, forcing him to remain on a wheel chair.
About two months ago, Mr. Osumba lost his mother in Kenya and that was after he lost his eldest daughter who was over 40 years old and who was a teacher in Kenya. Both the mother and the daughter succumbed to illness although his mother was advanced in years.
It is believed that the bereavements devastated Mr. Osumba and that the difficult circumstances could have resulted in his second stroke attack. Family members have requested that Kenyans, friends and well-wishers pray for Mr. Osumba.
Mr. Osumba is a very intelligent man and highly political. Before he left Kenya in the early 70s, he was very close to the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga who assisted him to proceed for further studies in the former Soviet Union. He later relocated to Sweden after failing to return to Kenya because the dictatorship of Mzee Jomo Kenyatta was harassing and intimidating Kenyans who studied in the former Soviet Union due to fear that they could spread communism in Kenya.
Okoth Osewe
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Hello Osewe
Just wondering, any updates on Osumba’s condition? Is he improving from his critical condition? Please give us some if there is.
Hello!
I am Theresa, his daughter. I am abroad and I´m having problems with the contactline. If you don´nt believe me, you can ask his wife. If something further horrible I do not want to bother her, sence I can not be there in Sweden to help right now. Is my father worse or improving? If anybody talks to him, please tell him that his dream for Theresa is coming throuh, that he´s daughter is doing very well at the university. I know that will make him happy. Why is it so dificult for him to get out of kenya and go back to Sweden?
Please let my faher know he´s genes are very well represented.
Thank you
KSB: Theresa, thank you for taking contact. For an update, your father arrived in Sweden during the Summer and was immediately admitted to hospital. I visitted him a day after his arrival and although he was not in a very good condition, he was mentally very alert and could discuss Kenyan politics. His condition has greatly improved and now his life is out of danger. He has moved from hospital to a new home and I am in touch with him. I visitted him several times before he left hospital. I will pass his regards. Get in touch through “contact KSB” page so that I can pass you a number where you can reach him in his new home. Good luck with your studies at university.
Theresa osumba