RIP: Former Budalangi MP James Osogo Has Passed Away, Family Confirms - Kenyans Living It

Osogo was born in the little village of Bukani in Bunyala District in 1932, the second of 10 children. He was raised in a strict Catholic family, his father being an official of the local church.According to his family, the former Member Of Parliament died while undergoing treatment at a Kisumu hospital.

Osogo fought many political battles in his day and even stuck his neck out sometimes in the most charged of circumstances. In 1975 for instance, following the mysterious death of Nyandarua MP Josiah Mwangi Kariuki.

Osogo, then the Minister for Health, led the government’s attempt to scuttle the report by the Parliamentary Select Committee, chaired by Elijah Mwangale, that implicated Police Commissioner Bernard Hinga and General Service Unit Commandant Benjamin Gethi in the killing.

The veteran politician, Osogo served as a cabinet minister in the Jomo Kenyatta and Moi regimes between 1964 and 1980. He was the only serviving member of Kenyatta post independence cabinet.

by: Khase

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