sir iambakey okuk? he keeps popping up in stories i hear and now at work i'm editing a book which mentions him, and need to verify what is says - but i'm finding it difficult to verify anything about him. a simbu politician. but when did he die (sometime in the 1980s), how (brain cancer? if so were there really 7 tumours? liver cancer? suddenly?) and details about where he's buried: did his family really camp beside the grave for a year? Is there really a fence around his memorial? Did the govt really pay for it? He was a big politician; I didn't think it would be this difficult to find out.
There was rioting after his death, I've found that out. And I think this one is true - that he bought 92 000 bottles of beer to try and buy his way through an election; it failed, and he was furious. As you would be: all that beer! What did the people do, just drink it?!
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