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To Brenda, Shaka, Hawi, family, friends and colleagues. role as an optimization engineer, where he attended to our
customer needs with zeal despite his health challenges. I
On 12th of this month, I received news that Isaiah had
been taken ill and had been rushed to the hospital. It was would often visit him or talk to him and find he had gone
difficult to compose myself but I had to petition God to to solve customer complaints. This was second nature to
restore his health. This would not have been the first time, him. His tools of the trade would happily be displayed in
months earlier when he had been down ,we had prayed and his living room. What a man. He has impacted us colleagues
God had restored him. God, chose to heal him permanently and we will continue abiding with his ethos of keenness,
later that evening and take him to His Presence. 3 days industriousness and teamwork.
earlier, I had visited him upon his request and met him just We will miss:
after he had taken his boys out for some burgers, • Him as gentleman per excellence
exemplifying his value for his family. He was in his true • His finesse in matters engineering
element hosting his longtime neighbors who had paid him a • His fondness of his immediate family and his friends
courtesy call. They had come to cheer him on, but the • His smile and an easy persona which allowed him to
reverse was apparent he ended up heartening them.
brotherly interact with people despite the
I have known our departed brother since 2007 when I background.
joined this company. He was one of a handful of engineers • His stories filled with wit together with lessons
who welcomed me into the company and horned my skills in learnt
field operations. Back then as one of our most trusted and • His grit
able field engineers; he would demonstrate the true spirit To Ogor's family, my colleagues on behalf of my colleagues
of fieldwork. Through his dedication, he would man the in field operations we say Pole Sana in the words of
whole of Machakos, Kitui and a bit of Makueni sites. His scripture: The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and
area spanned the most sites back then.
saves those who are crushed in spirit. Never will He be
This showed his great tenacity and made him stand out as forgotten. Am honoured and humbled to have known him.
an icon in our section. This energy was evident in his later
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