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Originally published by Capital Newstop
December 13, 2025
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Cyrus Jirongo: Political Powerbroker, Businessman and Former Lugari MP Dies in Naivasha Crash
Friends said he left Nairobi after meeting a group of Western Kenya leaders in Karen and was heading to his rural home in Lugari, Kakamega. Other accounts suggested he had travelled to Naivasha for a brief engagement and was returning to Nairobi at the time of the crash. Police s..
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Former Lugari MP Cyrus Jirongo, a prominent figure in Kenyan politics and business, died in a road crash on Saturday morning, December 13, in Naivasha. His vehicle collided head-on with a Climax Coach bus on the Nakuru Highway around 3:00 am.
- Jirongo, aged 64, was driving alone when the accident occurred at Karai, Naivasha.
- He was a leader of Youth for KANU ’92 (YK’92) and a former Minister for Rural Development.
- Investigations into the cause of the crash are ongoing, as leaders like COTU Secretary-General Francis Atwoli mourned his passing.
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