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Elijah Omolo Agar was the first member of parliament for
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after
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got independence from Britain. He was elected on an independent ticket in the first elections beating Gogo Ochok of Kenya African National Union (KANU). Elijah Omolo Agar was a master's degree graduate from
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in the US and a Bachelor of Economics Graduate from India. He was a staunch ally of Thomas Joseph Mboya. He served as an Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Home Affairs. He was the editor of the pre independence newspaper called ''Uhuru''. It is his article questioning the detention of the
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that earned him detention too in Lamu alongside John Keen. He got involved in a near fatal accident at Ruga in Oyugis on his way from
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. These injuries eventually killed him in 1970 shortly after the assassination of Tom Mboya in July 1969.


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