Former minister Joseph Otiende at his home in Kegoe, Mbale Vihiga County. Photo: Daily Nation/nation.co.keThe first minister for education in Kenya Joseph Otiende is dead.

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Otiende died at Avenue hospital in Kisumu at a ripe age of 100 years on Wednesday morning at 4:30 am.

The departed minister served in President Jomo Kenyatta first independence cabinet between 1963 to 1969.

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