“Sister Sika is stationed at St Francis Nyamonge, where she is the head teacher.
She’s been spending most of her free time with Fr Oduor since his arrival and they are often seen together in her car, the same vehicle that was burnt,” said a man of the cloth in the archdiocese.
A source within Ahero told The Nairobian that, “Our rules do not allow sisters to own personal property and we understand that the car was bought by a missionary priest as a gift to Sister Caroline,” said the source, adding that Fr Oduor’s closeness to Sr Caroline could not have gone down well with the other priest as Sr Sika allowed Fr Juma to use it often.
Friends described Fr Oduor and Sr Sika as “very close friends” who met through another Catholic nun who was Fr Oduor’s classmate at Sigomere Secondary School in Ugenya, Siaya County, between 1997 and 2000.
Fr Oduor was using Sr Sika’s vehicle after defaulting on his own car loan repayment, leading to its repossession, according to a close friend who explained that, “It was after his car was taken away that he started using the car belonging to the nun.
The nun was his close confidant and they spent a lot of time together even though they were stationed at different parishes,” said the friend, who is also Fr Oduor’s former classmate at Sigomere Secondary School.
“He was a man of the people and very friendly to the masses. That’s probably why he was very close to Sister Sika, a nun from Alego Mbaga in Siaya County,” recalled a nun from the Kisumu archdiocese. While he differed many a time with people, he remained a very jovial man and was often straightforward in his opinions and sentiments, she added.
“The motive for his murder is baffling,” Fr Oduor’s friend said, arguing that, “If they were robbers they wouldn’t have burnt the car, and how could it be political yet Evans never engaged in politics?
If it is a long standing difference with some people, he would have shared it with me since we were so close and he always shared his issues with me.”
