Former TLB Chairman Hassan Ole Kamwaro Succumbs to Cancer in the US

Former Transport and Licensing Board (TLB) Chairman Hassan Ole Kamwaro has passed away.

The 75-year-old is reported to have succumbed to throat cancer on Tuesday while undergoing treatment in the United States.

While confirming his death, his daughter Diana Kamwaro said her father was admitted at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma three months ago. 

She said Mr. Kamwaro 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.

He hit the headlines in 2013 after marrying Eunice Sesian, a 15-year-old girl. 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.

In a past interview, Kamwaro said his first wife died in a road accident while the second one abandoned him as he was seeking treatment in the US.

He served as the TLB Chairman from 2010 to 2012 and is remembered for a non-nonsense approach in dealing with the matatu menace in the country before he retired.

He served as Wiper party deputy chairman in 2015. Kamwaro held a doctorate degree from United Graduate College in the US.