Some politicians in the Republic of Kenya make more than one million Kenyan shillings a year, and that’s before they get their generous allowances. The approved cabinet secretaries in Kenya right now have a net worth of about half a billion Kenyan Shillings on average, proving that the politicians there are living the good life.
As a result, it is not uncommon for a person who was formerly well compensated to fall from grace to grass and for a person who was once paid peanuts to rise from the gutter.
Honorable Otieno Mak’Onyango is a living example of a once-famous Cabinet Secretary and Member of Parliament who has fallen on hard times and is now living in extreme poverty. He had previously served as an assistant minister and as a representative for the district of Alego Usonga in the legislature.
Former Kenyan lawmaker Hon. Otieno Mak’Onyango is now a reclusive old man who has lost everything despite having been worth millions.
According to the Standard media, the ex-Kenyan Cs is currently living in abject poverty in a dilapidated two-room shack on the outskirts of Ngong town in Kajiado County, in the company of a friend’s family.
Reports indicate that the ex-MP is so financially strapped that he can hardly afford to eat, let alone pay for the treatment of his diabetes and hypertension.
The fact that individuals have a hard time justifying a donation to a “millionare’s” maintenance costs tortures him.
