“My mother and mother-in-law kept me updated, but they were very pleasant the whole time. They said those who were in the car were in hospital and being taken care of, and that I should not worry,” he recalls.

On the third day his cousin called and told him, “We have to be realistic here. Now, I have to give you the news as it is.”

“And that is when he told me all the kids had died in the accident,” Mr Kibugi says.