Prominent Kenyan personalities who died from cancer
The latest death of Bishop Allan Kiuna showed the high rates of people who are dying from cancer.
Sadly the disease affects people from all social classes.
Here are prominent people in Kenya who have died from cancer in the past years.
Prof Wangari Maathai– Ovarian Cancer – 2011
Njenga Karume (Former minister and MP for Kiambaa)- Prostrate Cancer – 2011
Nderitu Gachagua (Former Nyeri Governor ) -Pancreatic cancer (2017)
Janet Kanini (TV presenter) – lung cancer in March 2017
Francis Nyenze (Former Kitui West MP)Â Â – colon cancer – 2017
Grace Kipchoim ( Former Baringo South MP ) – Acute Colon Cancer. – 2018
Ben Oluoch (Former Migori Senator) Throat cancer- 2018
Ken Okoth (Kibera MP) – Colorectal Cancer 2019
Jonathan Toroitich Moi – Pancreatic cancer- 2019
Bob Collymore ( Safaricom CEO )- Acute Myeloma leukemia- 2019
Joyce Laboso (Bomet Governor) – 2019
Jane Kiano( Former Maendeleo ya Wanawake Organization chairperson) – lung cancer – 2020
Catherine Kasavuli -Cervical Cancer – 2022
Bishop Allan Kiuna (JCC Founder) – 2024