Nairobi, April 25 -- Colonel Duncan Keitany, one of the airmen who died with Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Francis Ogolla in a helicopter crash last week, shared startling similarities with his boss.

Like General Ogolla, Colonel Keitany helped build a church, he was a deeply religious man, and he paid school fees for the poor. He also donated land to the Church at his home in Eldama Ravine, Baringo County.

Col Keitany joined the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) in 1992, eight years after General Ogolla signed up in 1984.

When the Nation visited the colonel's home in Rongai, Kajiado County, a sombre mood hang in the air .

Colonel Keitany and his wife Norah Chebet Keitany, who lived in Rongai, moved in together on April 18, 1995. They had thr...