The driver of Climax Bus Company, who was driving the bus that was involved in the accident that claimed the life of former Cabinet Minister during Kanu era, Cyrus Jirongo, has recounted the ordeal that happened when the accident occurred.
Speaking to a battery of journalists, Mr Kamau Githinji recounted how he tried to stop the bus he was driving from colliding with Cyrus Jirongo’s Mercedes-Benz car, but realised that by doing so, he risked crashing the bus, and all the 67 passengers on-board were bound to perish.
Mr Kamau said that the 2.00 AM accident occured when he was driving to Busia, and Mr Jirongo had just left petrol station, and was driving towards Nairobi. It was at that very moment that Jirongo was driving on the wrong side of the road — trying to evade traffic jam on his left side — that his Mercedes-Benz car met the oncoming Climax bus head on.
He didn’t know who was that sole casualty inside the car immediately, but after the police came, they informed him that it was Hon Jirongo.
Jirongo is known to be part of Kanu youth of 1992 who were behind President Daniel Moi’s relection in the the first multiparty election in Kenya. His name, Jirongo, was given to Ksh. 500 note, then the country’s highest denomination. He’d issue people with those notes during campaigns as a campaign style to win over voters.
