Former Alego Usonga MP Otieno Mak’Onyango Dies at Nairobi Hospital

Otieno Mak’Onyango, who represented Alego Usonga in Parliament from 1992 to 1997, died on the night of October 25, 2026, while receiving treatment at Nairobi Hospital. Current area MP Samuel Atandi announced his death and praised Mak’Onyango’s reforms and lasting place in the constituency’s political history. After suffering a stroke on October 3, he was first treated in Ngong Town before being transferred to Nairobi, and a fundraising appeal was launched to help cover his care. A journalist with The Standard before his arrest following the 1982 attempted coup, he spent years in detention without trial and was awarded Ksh20 million in compensation in 2012, though reports say the money was never paid.