UDA Aspirant Dies Under Unclear Circumstances
2 min readUDA Aspirant Dies Under Unclear Circumstances, Johnson Lokato the incumbent West Pokot Member of County Assembly.
With fewer than three months until the August 9 general elections, the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) has lost another politician.
Johnson Lokato, the politician’s real name, was the incumbent Member of the County Assembly in West Pokot, representing the Lelan ward.
Lokato died while being rushed to the hospital on Saturday evening.
According to one of his close relatives, the MCA died after a brief illness.
Lokato became ill during the day, but he was taken to a medical facility in Kapenguria and treated before being permitted to return home.
The soft-spoken ward representative became unwell again, and his condition deteriorated just as plans to return him to the hospital were being made, and he died.
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“He was sick and went to the hospital in Kapenguria where he was treated and allowed to go home. They said it was pneumonia then later in the evening we were told Mzee’s condition has worsened and died just before he was rushed to hospital,” his son-in-law Obadiah Lagat said.
He was nominated to the West Pokot County Assembly in 2013. He then ran for the lelan ward seat as an independent candidate and won.
He was defending his seat on a UDA ticket prior to his death.
Lokato joins a long list of other UDA candidates who died while running for office in the August election.
Other UDA allied aspirants who passed on recently include Mark Bowen who was running for the MCA seat in Elgeyo Marakwet, Wesley Kogo who was running for the Nandi Hills parliamentary seat, and Nancy Wanjala Mwashumbe who was running for a ward seat in Changamwe Constituency.
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