In November 2013, Nyakach MP Aduma Owuor lost his parents after a gang attacked their home and set their house ablaze.

His 80-year old father was burnt to ashes while his 70-year old step mother who was outside the main house during the attack was hit by a blunt object on the head leading to her death. She was in the kitchen preparing supper.

According to Aduma, the attackers were after him probably due to his efforts to end cattle rustling. He was just an newly elected MP at the time of the unfortunate incident.

“My father was just some intestine. There was no bone, leg  or skull, everything was burnt to ashes. That day, I had a function here at home and I think the attackers thought I would be in this home,” Aduma said in interview with NTV.

His ailing father had just suffered a heart attack  and had undergone treatment in MP Shah Hospital, Nairobi. He had just gone home for a short while when the unfortunate incident happened.

The MP says that had he been in the house, he could have suffered the same fate as his parents. At the time of the incident he was in Nairobi.

“They knew I would be coming home that evening because we had a planned meeting with our elders. They knew I would come a spend at home. Fortunately, my plans didn’t work, something told me not to move so I stayed. I thought that if they had wanted to attack somebody it was me not my parents. My guard was a bit lowered I didn’t know they would come for my parents because my father was never in politics,” he said

He believes that some of his workers colluded with the attackers. One is his farm hand, who had been serving his parents just for a month before the attack. He was later arrested and released.

“I later learnt that the house boy was working in Kisumu at a butchery. Remember most of the cattle stolen here is slaughtered in Kisumu and Kericho. This guy could have been planted by these fellows when they knew we wanted somebody to take care of this home,” he said

Two weeks before the murder of his parents, he sought for protection from the parliament as he had a premonition that someone was after his life. He lost his nephew, uncle and personal assistant consecutively through murder at around the same time.

“He was my most reliable security. His murder, I later learnt was to pave way for the events they were planning to undertake. Two weeks after my parents’ death were not easy. I was being sent messages which I later learnt were from DCIO Kisumu. I recorded a statement in Kisumu,” he said.

During his parents’ burial, another of his personal assistant was also attacked and left for death but he survived.

“When somebody wants to break you, they go for people you rely on so that you can feel the pain. When they want to weaken you, they clip your wings,” he said.

After the premonition about , he took upon himself to save his life by taking precautions such as using a hearse.

“I no longer travel in a hearse, the security is now good.  The things that travel in a hearse are things that are dreaded by people. When they see a hearse coming with even a siren, the roads are cleared for you. It is still there. That was before the murder of my parents. I didn’t take some of these precautions maybe I would have been the victim,” he said.

After the deadly incident of his parents, Aduma never spends time at his rural home and neither is he in Nairobi during weekends. He doesn’t have a body guard or driver because of trust issues and the fate that his previous aides suffered.

He also doesn’t have a specific vehicle for his movements. He opts for public transport, cabs and even motorcycle.

“I cook my own food when am at home or even in Kisumu,” he further said.

In 2016, his rural  home suffered another arson attack with his two vehicles being torched. He says his family is still healing from the 2013 tragedy.