Former influential Kenyan Assistant minister Frederick Oduya Oprong bedridden with bullet lodged in head

Frederick Oduya Oprong is bedridden at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital’s private wing and is badly in need of cash to pay his medical bills.

The once burly assistant minister whose booming voice made him stand out in Parliament has been in poor health since he was shot in the head in 1994. There is little doubt that the former ally of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga is a pale shadow of himself and quite different from the man who served as assistant minister in the administrations of former presidents Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi.