Otieno Kajwang Explained

Gerald Otieno Kajwang
Office:Member of the Kenyan Senate
Constituency:Homa Bay County
Office2:Minister of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons
President2:Mwai Kibaki
Party:ODM
Birth Date:15 July 1955
Birth Place:Nyeri, Kenya
Death Place:Kenya
Nationality:Kenyan
Relations:Brother to MP TJ Kajwang, Moses Kajwang
Alma Mater:Makerere University
Kenya School of Law
Profession:Lawyer
Term Start:March 2013
Term End:19 November 2014
Term Start2:2008
Term End2:2013
Office3:Member of the National Assembly
Term Start3:1998
Term End3:2013
Constituency3:Mbita

Gerald Otieno Kajwang (July 15, 1955 – November 19, 2014) was a Kenyan politician. He belonged to the Orange Democratic Movement and was elected to represent the Mbita Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya in the December 2007 parliamentary election.[1] In the bitterly contested 2013 elections, Otieno Kajwang was elected to represent Homa Bay County in the Senate of Kenya. Upon his death, his brother, Moses Otieno Kajwang won the election to succeed him in Parliament, representing Homa Bay.

Kajwang died on 19 November 2014 at Mater hospital after suffering cardiac arrest.[2] His other brother, Tom Joseph Kajwang, also serves as an MP, representing Ruaraka.

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  1. http://www.bunge.go.ke/members.php Members Of The 10th Parliament
  2. http://www.nation.co.ke/news/-/1056/2527340/-/15s144wz/-/index.html Homa Bay Senator Otieno Kajwang' dies