Tuala community members in Kajiado East are mourning the death of one their neighbour, Professor Thomas Tony Onyango Mboya who was brutally murdered at his home in Kakrigu, Rusinga Island, Suba, following a land dispute yesterday morning.
Prof. Tom Mboya who was a scholar and the Director of the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the Technical University of Kenya (TUK) was attacked with a ‘panga’.
The deceased had travelled to his rural home to settle aland demarcation dispute.
According to his friend, he was supposed to be accompanied by the area chief but arrived earlier in the company of his workers and father.
“Suddenly the neighbors son descended on his father with a ‘panga’ and Tom tried to save his father but was hit twice on his head dying on the spot. His father survived the attack and currently at the hospital. The attackers who are on the run are known children of the other party involved in the dispute.
Professor Mboya was was born in 1970, completed his O-Level education (KCE) at Kokuro Secondary School in 1987 and later pursued his Kenya Advanced Certificate of Education (KACE) at Homa Bay High School in 1989. He then joined Egerton University for a Bachelor of Education (Science) degree, graduating in 1993.
In 1994, he was employed by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). In 1997, he took study leave to pursue a Master of Science degree in Mathematics at the University of Nairobi, graduating in 1999.
After completing his master,’s degree, he returned to teaching until 2002 when he joined the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) as a lecturer. He served there until 2005, after which he traveled to the United Kingdom to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Inverse and Ill-posed Problems at the University of Leeds, graduating in 2008.
From 2009 to 2012, he returned to CUEA as a lecturer. In March 2012, he joined the Technical University of Kenya as a Senior Lecturer and Chair of the Department of Statistics and Computational Mathematics, a position he held until January 2013. Between February 2013 and January 2016, he served as the Head of the Department of Industrial and Engineering Mathematics.
At the time of his death, Prof. Mboya was an Associate Professor and Director of the School of Mathematics and Statistics.
