This archive report was first published on 28 August 2019.
Former Transport and Licensing Board Chairman Hassan Ole Kamwaro, a 75-year-old man, has left a lasting legacy in Kenya's transport sector.
He is remembered for his non-nonsense approach in dealing with the matatu menace in the country before he retired.
However, his life was cut short on Tuesday when he succumbed to throat cancer while undergoing treatment in the United States.
According to his daughter Diana Kamwaro, Mr. Kamwaro was admitted at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma three months ago.
He was flown to the US in March and was first treated at Texas Oncology Centre before being transferred to Mercy Hospital on April 29th.
Ms. Diana said Kamwaro collapsed for the second time last Saturday and was taken to Intensive Care Unit (ICU), where he died on Tuesday.
"He again collapsed last Saturday and was sent to the Intensive Care Unit and on Tuesday evening he succumbed," she told Daily Nation.
Mr. Kamwaro hit the headlines in 2013 after marrying Eunice Sesian, a 15-year-old girl, in a union that sparked controversy due to their significant age difference.
At the time, Kamwaro told reporters that in the Maasai culture, it was not age that mattered but family background.
He said that his children, some of whom were older than Sesian, contributed Sh200,000 for the wedding and accepted her as their mum.
Mr. Kamwaro served as the TLB Chairman from 2010 to 2012 and later as Wiper party deputy chairman in 2015.
He held a doctorate degree from United Graduate College in the US.
