Jirongo's Wife Gives Account Of Last Moments of Late MP

Jirongo’s Wife Gives Account Of Last Moments of Late MP

Cyrus Jirongo’s wife has emotionally recounted her last moments with the politician, including their final meeting before his terrible demise.

On Saturday, December 27, Anne Jirongo, one of Jirongo’s three wives, spoke out in public for the first time during Jirongo’s memorial service at a citam church in Nairobi.

She described how she learnt her spouse had been involved in an accident and rushed to the scene to save him.

She revealed that she didn’t get enough sleep the night Jirongo died, and when she awoke about midnight, she got a bad sensation.

“At around 3am, I was still awake trying to make sense of what I was feeling when I got Jirongo’s call,” Anne narrated.

“When I picked it, it was not him. Someone instead asked me if I knew Jirongo, and I told him that’s my husband.”

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“At first, I thought it was a prank when I was told he was involved in a road accident in Naivasha because he had no plans of travelling. It did not make sense,” she continued.

Anne last saw Jirongo on December 12 in a shop after the former MP asked to see her before leaving to see National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula.

“On December 12, Jamhuri Day, Cyrus called me at around 12:30 p.m., and we spoke for about 15 minutes and 25 seconds.

“He called again at around 2:30 pm and asked me where I was, and I told him that I was in the supermarket,” she explained.

Anne went on, “He said he wanted to see me, so he drove to where I was. When he reached the parking, he told me he was outside.’

“I put the trolley aside and went to see him. I sat in the car, we had a conversation, and then he left. He told me he was going back to the office to build his castles,” she said.

“He told me I am going to dream and build my castles in the office, and later he was going to see the speaker, Moses Wetang’ula.”

Jirongo would subsequently call Anne over FaceTime at 4 p.m., revealing that he had canceled plans to go to the office and instead went to his house.

“When he called, he was in the chair. He told me he had been sleeping in the chair for about two hours. And that was the last time I spoke to Cyrus,” she revealed.

Jirongo died in a horrific traffic accident on the Nairobi Nakuruu highway in the early morning hours of December 13, when his Mercedes-Benz collided with a P.S.V. bus bringing passengers to Western Kenya.

Upon receiving the news, she asked her daughter to accompany her to the scene while she tried to reach out to Jirongos’ friends, informing them of the ordeal.

Anne says the friends agreed to accompany them to Naivasha, and upon reaching Naivasha, the police told them that Jirongo had died and could not be rescued.

That’s when she called other family members.

The revelations come a few days after Moses Wetangula also gave his own account of meeting with Jirongo the same night.

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Wetangula said he reached Jirongo on the phone after the deceased tried to get hold of him while in Uganda for the parliamentary games.

“We sat together on the evening of December 12 from 8 pm with Jirongo and two others. At around 9 pm, we lost an MP from the coast region,” Wetangula stated on December 24 when he visited Jirongo’s rural home.

“I told Jirongo that the following morning, I would travel to the coast for the funeral. In the morning, I got the news that Jirongo died in a road accident. That is how close it is to me.”

Jirongo will be laid to rest on Tuesday, December 30, at his rural home in Lumakandaa in Lugari, Kakamega County.

Jirongo’s Wife Gives Account Of Last Moments of Late MP

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