Former Lugari MP Cyrus Jirongo to be buried at Lumakanda home in Kakamega on December 30
Former Lugari MP Cyrus Jirongo will be buried on December 30, 2025, at his Lumakanda home in Kakamega County, next to his parents, following a fatal road accident in Naivasha.
Former Lugari MP Cyrus Jirongo will be laid to rest at his family home in Lumakanda, Kakamega County, on Tuesday, December 30, 2025.
The burial plans were announced on Sunday by a funeral committee chaired by former MP Fred Gumo, following a consultative meeting with the family and other stakeholders.
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According to the committee, Jirongo will be buried next to his late parents in a ceremony that will observe Luhya interment rites.
“We have constituted a committee to coordinate the funeral arrangements for our brother,” said Vihiga Senator George Khaniri on behalf of the committee.
“We have agreed, tentatively, that the burial will take place on December 30, and that he will be laid to rest at his Lumakanda home beside his father and mother.”
Jirongo, 64, died in a road accident in Karai, Naivasha, Nakuru County, along the Nairobi–Nakuru highway, on Saturday, December 13.
Head-on collision
He passed away in the early hours of the morning after his vehicle was involved in a head-on collision with a 65-seater Climax Coach bus. He died at the scene, and his body was taken to a local mortuary.
Born in March 1961, Jirongo rose to national prominence in 1992 as the leader of Youth for KANU ’92, a group formed to support President Daniel arap Moi during Kenya’s first multiparty elections.
The organisation played a key role in mobilising supporters and raising funds, establishing Jirongo as one of the most influential young political figures of the early 1990s.
Before entering elective politics, he served as chairman of AFC Leopards Football Club in 1991, a role that boosted his public profile beyond politics. He was later elected Member of Parliament for Lugari in 1997 and subsequently appointed Minister for Rural Development in Moi’s final KANU government in 2002.
Although he lost his parliamentary seat in 2002, Jirongo regained it in 2007 under his own party, the Kenya African Democratic Development Union (KADU), remaining its sole MP until 2013.
He later sought higher office, including a presidential bid in 2017 under the United Democratic Party and an unsuccessful attempt to become Kakamega governor.
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