Former Kenya Prisons boss Isaiah Osugo dies after battle with cancer

The former commissioner general of Kenya Prisons Isaiah Mosiori Osugo is dead at 67 years.

According to reports, Osugo died Monday evening at around 7 p.m. while undergoing treatment at the Nairobi Hospital where he was battling cancer.

Osugo, the report added, had also sought treatment in  India however his condition still worsened.

Commissioner Osugo was appointed to the correctional department as the commissioner general of prisons in 2008 by late president Mwai Kibaki from his previous post as the Nairobi provincial Criminal Investigations Department (CID) chief, replacing Gilbert Omondi who retired.

Osugo's tenure at the department ended on  March 19, 2019,  paving way for  Wycliffe Ogalo as the new commissioner general.