'Inmates started calling me kifo and maiti,'Cedric Shivonje speaks after he was mistaken for stowaway Paul Manyasi

Piece by: Caren Nyota
Lifestyle

Cedric Shivonje Isaac believed to be the stowaway, who fell from KQ Boeing aircraft before it landed in London on June 30, is alive.

Sky News first published photos of Cedric Shivonje, and identified him as Paul Manyasi.

The British media also reported that Shivonje was an employee of cleaning company, but the firm denied knowing the stowaway.

Shivonje, however, is currently remanded at a city prison after he failed to raise bail of Sh200,000 for an alleged sexual abuse case.

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In an interview with Nation, Shivonje whose photos have been making rounds on social media, the 25-year-old said

I am alive as you can see.

Shivonje who was accompanied by his father Isaac Beti, uncle Timothy Burundi and lawyer James Mbugua added that,

Those are my photos and they were taken from my Facebook account.

Cedric's last Facebook profile was updated on July 14 while the stowaway (Manyasi) went missing on June 30.

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Shivonje, who was an English and Science teacher at a private school in Kawangware was arrested on August 7 and remanded on August 13 at a city prison.

He said he first saw the photos on Citizen TV,

I saw my pictures on TV but the name was not mine. They said I was a cleaner at JKIA. The next day a female prison warden told me the full story and inmates started calling me kifo (death) and maiti (corpse). I cried a lot.

Speaking to Nation, Shivonje's further said,

They have damaged my son's reputation and he needs to be cleansed after being labeled dead.

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