Ex-Gor Mahia player Oloo “Breakdance’ is dead
Former Harambee Stars and Gor Mahia player Ben Oloo alias 'Break dance' (right) of Administration Department vies for the ball with Swaleh Mnonoi (left) of MCC Department during the Kenya Ports Authority Inter-Departmental Soccer championship at the Mbaraki Sports Club on January 13, 2013. Oloo passed away on February 26, 2018. PHOTO | FILE |
What you need to know:
- Former Harambee Stars and Gor Mahia player Ben 'breakdance' Oloo was found dead Monday morning at his house at Koo Chonjo in Mombasa.
- The gifted left winger, who joined Bandari in 1984 from Lake Warriors, was found dead on his bed but it could not immediately be established how he died.
- According to a colleague at Kenya Ports Authority, where he was a manager and former Gor Mahia teammate George Onyango Fundi , who was the last person with him on Sunday night,
Ben Oloo “Breakdance”, former Harambee Stars and Gor Mahia winger was found dead Monday morning at his house at Koo Chonjo in Mombasa.
The gifted forward, who joined Bandari in 1984 from Lake Warriors was found dead on his bed. The cause of his death could not be immediately established. According to a colleague at Kenya Ports Authority where he was a manager, George Onyango “Fundi”, Oloo was in high spirits on the fateful night
Born in 1961 in Migori County, Oloo went to Central Primary School and Kisumu Boys High School where he played hockey. He was part of the school team that won the national title in 1974.
He transferred to St Mary’s High School, Yala where he abandoned hockey for basketball until 1978 when Erick Omonge asked him to join football after a brilliant display during an inter-dormitory competition.
Ben Oloo in a recent photo. He was found dead on Monday morning. PHOTO | COURTESY |
He joined Kisumu Black Stars and played for them in the 1979 and 1980 Super League. He joined Utalii College a year later and featured for their football team even as he pursued a course in food and beverage management at the institution.
He joined Lake Warriors of Mombasa, then Kenya Cargo Handling Services (now Bandari), before being poached by Gor Mahia in 1985 where his electric skills earned him the nickname “Breakdance”.
