NCIC Vice Chair Mary Onyango Dead

The nation has once again been plunged into mourning. Glowing tributes are being paid to a woman who has been at the forefront in campaigning for health rights, peaceful co-existence and tolerance among different communities. "colorful, sweet, determined" are just but some of the words those who knew Mary Onyango, the departed Vice Chairperson of the National Cohesion and Intergration Commission, used to describe her. She passed on early this morning after a twelve - year battle with cancer at the Aga Khan Hospital in Kisumu. President Mwai Kibaki led a host of other leaders in mourning the death of the commissioner whom he described as a peace crusader. Willis Raburu reports on the life and times of Mary Onyango