Kenyan filmmaker and creative consultant Silas Miami has come out guns ablaze accusing his renowned father of abuse and abandonment.
The vocal Miami who also doubles up as a singer, is the son of former media personality Louis Otieno who he has unabashedly denounced, while narrating his experiences with his estranged controversial father. Miami, who is openly gay, gave a detailed insight into the relations (or lack thereof) with Otieno in a statement, divulging he has met him just a few times, the first being when he was 22.
“I know he is genetically my father, but I don’t know this man. Louis Otieno is many things to many people. To me, Louis was a trash father who didn’t care whether I lived or died,” he began before laying bare the few occasions they almost interacted, but which the former KTN anchor would twist to see no interaction happened.
“Once near Posta when I was 4 – he almost got hit by a KBS running into oncoming traffic. There was the time he narrowly escaped a conversation by using the service elevator at l&M to leave when he got tipped about our arrival. But my favorite ‘missed-connection’ has got to be the time we waited for him at Kengeles for 5hrs. He never showed – it was his invitation. Was I maybe 9,” he further expounded.
Miami recalled that once while in film school, he visited Otieno in his ‘deathbed’ but the latter spent the first minutes of the meeting denying that he was the former’s, which only spun things downhill the more. “It was at that moment that it finally dawned on me – I had wasted so much emotional labour on someone who wasn’t willing even to acknowledge my humanity,” quipped Miami.
In conclusion, he asked people to halt the queries about ‘this man,’ saying they have no knowledge of each other.
Miami came out as gay in 2020 and lives with husband Patrick in South Africa.
