Danstan Omari Opens Up on Last Case Cyrus Jirongo Handed Him Before His Death
Lawyer Danstan Omari has revealed that the late politician Cyrus Jirongo had instructed him to file crucial court documents just days before his sudden death in a fatal road accident along the Nairobi-Nakuru highway.
Speaking on Friday, Omari said Jirongo met him at Fairview Hotel and gave him detailed instructions for legal papers that were scheduled to be filed on Monday.
“He came and gave me instructions at Fairview Hotel, and we were supposed to file those papers in court on Monday. I went to Mombasa, worked on those papers, but I didn’t get to file them. Shockingly, I was told that he had passed on,” Omari said.
Omari, who had represented Jirongo in numerous high-profile cases spanning from the Chief Magistrate’s Court to the Supreme Court, described their relationship as going beyond that of a typical lawyer and client.
“He was more than a client to me. He was a friend,” Omari said emotionally, eulogising Jirongo as a man of resilience and conviction.
“A strong man. A man of strong conviction. A man who knew how to smile even at the point of adversity. A strong man who navigated the corridors of justice, fighting for what he believed. A strong man who believed in his political values and stood for them,” he added.
In a heartfelt appeal, Omari urged Kenyans, particularly bloggers and social media users, to allow the family to grieve in peace. He warned against exploiting Jirongo’s death for political gain or public spectacle.
“My appeal to everybody is to let the family mourn quietly. Let those agencies mandated by the constitution and statutory laws handle the necessary procedures. But my appeal is that we let the family mourn,” he said.
He further called on online content creators to exercise sensitivity.
“Those bloggers posting a lot of rubbish all over to attract views do not understand what it means to lose a husband, a father, an uncle, or a friend. May we be sober in this time of grieving,” Omari stated.
Jirongo passed away on Saturday, December 13, following a head-on collision with a bus operated by Climax Company Limited along the Nairobi-Nakuru highway in the early hours of the morning.
According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the accident occurred at approximately 2:19 a.m. CCTV footage from Eagol Petrol Station showed that Jirongo had entered the station from Nairobi at 2:18:40 a.m. but did not refuel. Less than a minute later, he stopped at the station’s exit before turning back toward Nairobi, only to collide with the bus at 2:19:25 a.m.
The force of the crash was so severe that Jirongo’s vehicle was pushed about 25 metres from the point of impact, while the bus stopped roughly 50 metres away.
A postmortem conducted by the family’s pathologist, Dr. Joseph Ndung’u, confirmed that Jirongo died from blunt force trauma. The examination revealed extensive injuries, including crush injuries to the chest and abdomen, spinal cord damage, multiple fractures to his right hand and both legs, a perforated heart, ruptured blood vessels, and internal bleeding in the chest and abdominal cavities. The spinal cord was also severed at the thoracic level.
Omari emphasized that the family has opted for private mourning and requested that Jirongo’s death not be politicized or exploited for online attention.
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Danstan Omari Opens Up on Last Case Cyrus Jirongo Handed Him Before His Death