RIP Onyango Oloo

[Ole]

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[Kadudu]

RIP OO. A true Kenyan patriot.

[vooke]

He was a good ninja,meant well for Kenia

[GeeMail]

Bad news. I intended to call him last week after seeing the story he was sick and down with HIV. Does he have family? May they be comforted.

https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1394&context=jiws

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

RIP OO.

[Kichwa]

This is very sad.

[RV Pundit]

RIP. OO was an online legend.

[machoman]

RIP omwami OO

[patel]

Rest in peace Oyango Oloo.

[Georgesoros]

Bad news. I intended to call him last week after seeing the story he was sick and down with HIV. Does he have family? May they be comforted.

https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1394&context=jiws

HIV is a chronic disease. I am not sure why he did not aggressively fight it. He was an educated man, and he should have known better. But I guess he lost hope. This is sad!! Ill miss his aggressiveness in fighting for Kenyans.
He and Veritas were always on each others face.

[Wa Njambi]

RIP OO

[patel]

Wait a minute....so OO was fine and in Nakuru to collects books that Miguna had gifted him....what exactly happened here?

[KenyanPlato]

Rip double OO. One the most prolific bloggers and thinkers of Kenyan in diaspora. He really was one of a kind. I learnt a whole deal of liberation struggle from him. You remember those. Essays what were thsy called. He used used to write 30 pages. Too bad oo never recovered from pstd he suffered while in detention and exile. It seems to have broken his soul and made him a depressed and very difficult in certain situations.

You will be missed. I know I earned one or two cyber urchins barbs from him.
 

Rest in power OO

He was a marxists. An ideologue.

I wish someone can curate some of his writing ..it would be nice to save it for free generations. What moi regime did to this men and women really destroyed most them completely. Detaining a 18 year old and forcing him to flee to exile is cruel and unusual punishment

[Georgesoros]

Rip double OO. One the most prolific bloggers and thinkers of Kenyan in diaspora. He really was one of a kind. I learnt a whole deal of liberation struggle from him. You remember those. Essays what were thsy called. He used used to write 30 pages. Too bad oo never recovered from pstd he suffered while in detention and exile. It seems to have broken his soul and made him a depressed and very difficult in certain situations.

You will be missed. I know I earned one or two cyber urchins barbs from him.
 

Rest in power OO

He was a marxists. An ideologue.

I wish someone can curate some of his writing ..it would be nice to save it for free generations. What moi regime did to this men and women really destroyed most them completely. Detaining a 18 year old and forcing him to flee to exile is cruel and unusual punishment

Me, I think he was a pragmatist. A real guy who ditched Raila for Uhuruto. Not an easy thing when you come from Nyalgunga. He read a lot, that is one thing I came to know. Njamlik will tell ya!

[GeeMail]

OO ditched Raila for who? When and how?

[bryan275]

So long fella, I think it was OO that coined the term "penning a Digital"   

[veritas]

Yes, he did coin 'penning a Digital'

Hi all, I understand we're hurting. I too am bunkering in the ski slopes- hiking, skiing, mourning for my beloved OO. But I know he'd want me to chin up about it, be courageous and keep going.

I hope you take the time to pen a digital tribute to OO. Please post on this board: http://www.nipate.org/index.php?board=26.0

I'd like to archive all his works on this board, in the hopes of publishing his works with all proceeds to his son, because I know he loved him very much, and that's what he would've wanted. I'd appreciate your help in collecting OO's digitals. That could be poems, blog entries, forum responses etc. please post here: http://www.nipate.org/index.php?board=26.0 or send me via private message.

Many thanks,
veri

[veritas]

Wait a minute....so OO was fine and in Nakuru to collects books that Miguna had gifted him....what exactly happened here?

Patel, OO has passed away but he passed peacefully. I felt his passing in my soul, an overwhelming sense of peace when it happened.

[GeeMail]

OO mentioned some time back that his advocate Kiraitu Murungi owed him something paid through his law firm from an award made in his favor after his illegal arrest in Kenya. Was this money ever paid? Is there any way this can be followed up for the sake of his son? 100k converted at today's rate can see the young boy through for some time.

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001276920/state-decisions-made-in-confines-of-boardrooms-are-not-binding-in-law

http://jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/363/decoding-kiraitus-36

Anyways, to cut a very long story to medium size, I was now the next person who we agreed should challenge this arbitrary administrative edict to deny prisoners remission.

On Monday, May 11th 1987 I walked out of Kamiti after the Court of Appeal panel- the same one that had decided the SM Otieno case- ruled in my favour and ordered my immediate release and awarded me KShs. 100,000.

Walking out of Kamiti I did not even think about the money, assuming that the Kenya government was very unlikely to honour the court order.

But it is the very same Kiraitu Murungi who placed a long distance telephone call from Boston to my apartment in Toronto in the summer of 1990 (remember this was the time of Muoroto; Kamau Kuria had just been detained and his partner Kiraitu was attending a conference in Ethiopia) to inform me of two things: he had decided to complete his post-graduate studies at Harvard during his stint in exile and very casually he informed me that the Kenya Government, believe it or not had actually written out a check to me in my full names- conveniently just after I crossed the border to neighbouring Tanzania to begin my own stint in exile.

What he told me next was even more bizarre: he, Kiraitu Murungi had somehow managed to cash and POCKET the KShs. 100,000. First of all, he told me, Amnesty International had paid Kiraitu in FULL. Secondly, Kiraitu was entitled to 10% of the monetary award and not a single ndururu more. He urged me to confront Kiraitu and demand a full refund, and that if he refused I should go ahead and sue him.http://jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/363/decoding-kiraitus-36#ixzz5rbhRoeGV

[KenyanPlato]

OO mentioned some time back that his advocate Kiraitu Murungi owed him something paid through his law firm from an award made in his favor after his illegal arrest in Kenya. Was this money ever paid? Is there any way this can be followed up for the sake of his son? 100k converted at today's rate can see the young boy through for some time.

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001276920/state-decisions-made-in-confines-of-boardrooms-are-not-binding-in-law

http://jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/363/decoding-kiraitus-36

Anyways, to cut a very long story to medium size, I was now the next person who we agreed should challenge this arbitrary administrative edict to deny prisoners remission.

On Monday, May 11th 1987 I walked out of Kamiti after the Court of Appeal panel- the same one that had decided the SM Otieno case- ruled in my favour and ordered my immediate release and awarded me KShs. 100,000.

Walking out of Kamiti I did not even think about the money, assuming that the Kenya government was very unlikely to honour the court order.

But it is the very same Kiraitu Murungi who placed a long distance telephone call from Boston to my apartment in Toronto in the summer of 1990 (remember this was the time of Muoroto; Kamau Kuria had just been detained and his partner Kiraitu was attending a conference in Ethiopia) to inform me of two things: he had decided to complete his post-graduate studies at Harvard during his stint in exile and very casually he informed me that the Kenya Government, believe it or not had actually written out a check to me in my full names- conveniently just after I crossed the border to neighbouring Tanzania to begin my own stint in exile.

What he told me next was even more bizarre: he, Kiraitu Murungi had somehow managed to cash and POCKET the KShs. 100,000. First of all, he told me, Amnesty International had paid Kiraitu in FULL. Secondly, Kiraitu was entitled to 10% of the monetary award and not a single ndururu more. He urged me to confront Kiraitu and demand a full refund, and that if he refused I should go ahead and sue him.http://jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/363/decoding-kiraitus-36#ixzz5rbhRoeGV

OO
Choose to forgive kiraitu. He was too of a gentleman and ideologue to bother about suing. I think the fact kiraitu got him out of jail was good enough for him. Remember OO was just 18 years when he was arrested. Anyway his son will never be able to understand his late father. We empathize with oo because we know what it was like to survive moi regime harassment. Only the strong live to tell but not without permanent scars.

Kiraitu is corrupt opportunist that won't pay our feel $bad about what he did.