Kajwang’ dad: My son led the way
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- Mzee Ajwang told mourners how he had convinced Mr Kajwang’ not to join Nairobi School for his Advanced Level education for fear that everyone else would want to attend the high-cost school.
- Mzee Ajwang was hospitalised after suffering shock on receiving the news of his son’s death. He said many wanted to be like the senator.
Mzee David Ajwang’s family has seven lawyers, thanks to the example his son, Homa Bay Senator Otieno Kajwang' set.
Even those who pursued other careers have children who are lawyers or are married to lawyers because they wanted to walk in the late senator’s footsteps, he said.
“He literally led the way,” said Mzee Ajwang, who was eulogising his son at his Runda home in Nairobi Tuesday.
Mzee Ajwang told mourners how he had convinced Mr Kajwang’ not to join Nairobi School for his Advanced Level education for fear that everyone else would want to attend the high-cost school.
“I told him, if you go, there will be a problem as you have very many siblings and everyone will want to go to similar schools. We have more of a football team,” he said. “That is he how he ended up at Homa Bay High School,” he said in his light-hearted eulogy.
Mzee Ajwang was hospitalised after suffering shock on receiving the news of his son’s death. He said many wanted to be like the senator.
Mr Kajwang’s widow, Rose, recalled how they met on a bus to Buru Buru estate in Nairobi in 1982. “I saw this tall, black man with very white teeth at the bus stop and his humour caught me,” she said.
Senators and MPs who were present eulogised Mr Kajwang’ as a great lawyer.
Mr Kajwang died of a cardiac arrest. He will be buried on Friday in Homa Bay.
