Reports indicate that on the evening leading into the early hours of the morning, Jirongo was in Nairobi in the company of a woman who later requested to be dropped in Naivasha.
Witness accounts suggest that at about 1.30 in the morning, Jirongo's vehicle stopped near a hotel in Naivasha town, where the woman was seen alighting before he continued with his journey.
Jirongo spoke with the woman for less than a minute then he drove off.
Hours later tragedy struck when Jirongo's vehicle was involved in a fatal collision with a passenger bus along the Nairobi-Nakuru Highway.
Emergency responders who arrived at the scene later established his identity and confirmed that he died on the spot.
Investigators disclosed that a half-used bottle of alcohol was found inside his car as enquiries into the circumstances surrounding the crash continued.
The developments added to growing public interest in the events that preceded his death.
Jirongo was a towering political figure who rose to prominence in the 1990s as a key mobiliser during the multiparty era before serving as Lugari MP and later as Minister for Rural Development.
He remained a familiar name in national politics and business circles for decades.
His personal life was equally public, with his polygamous lifestyle and financial struggles often making headlines.
In later years he openly spoke about the challenges these choices brought into his life.
Family pathologists later confirmed that he succumbed to severe blunt force trauma affecting vital organs following the crash.
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