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Court declares former presidential candidate Cyrus Jirongo bankrupt

Cyrus Jirongo (Photo: Courtesy)

Former Lugari MP Cyrus Jirongo was has been declared bankrupt after a judge found he was unable to pay a debt running into hundreds of millions of shillings.

Commercial Court judge Olga Sewe ruled in favour of businessman Sammy Kogo, Mr Jirongo’s creditor, and ordered that the latter’s estate should be placed under receivership.

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