Chief Government Pathologist Dr. Johannsen Oduor has confirmed the cause of death for former Lugari Member of Parliament Cyrus Jirongo.
Jirongo died on Saturday following a head-on collision with a bus on the Nairobi-Nakuru highway in Naivasha.
This conclusion comes amid allegations of foul play from the united opposition, led by former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, and from Jirongo’s own family, who suggested the crash was a political assassination.
When paying homage at Jirongo’s Nairobi residence on Tuesday, Gachagua drew a direct comparison to the 1975 death of J.M. Kariuki—a case widely believed to be a political assassination that remains officially unsolved. A parliamentary inquiry once implicated senior government and police officials in Kariuki’s death, but no convictions ever followed.
However, speaking after conducting the post-mortem examination, Dr. Oduor has categorically ruled out foul play. He confirmed that the former Lugari legislator died from massive blunt force trauma, which caused severe injuries to his chest, abdomen, spine, and legs.
Oduor elaborated that these injuries damaged Jirongo’s heart, ruptured the left ventricle, and severed the aorta—the body’s main artery.
The pathologist’s findings indicate that the fatal injuries were consistent with a severe traffic accident
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