Oloo Aringo son: They say looks may be deceiving, well Peter Oloo Aringo may look like that ordinary man with limited means. When The Standard team got to his home, he was going about with his activities, a surprising sight for someone who had been deported.
Aringo is the firstborn son of former Alego Member of Parliament and minister for education Peter Oloo Aringo and a Jamaican mother. It was his heritage that caught the media’s attention. This was in his story of becoming a deported son of a prominent individual.
He attended the prestigious Consolata Primary School in Nairobi and St. Mary’s Yala. It was there he had begun drinking. Later, he proceeded to the United States where he pursued a business administration course at Lona College, before transitioning to his unfortunate fate as the deported son of a minister.
While in the US, Aringo opines life was good, on the first lane. His drinking habits right back from high school in Kenya, however, grew not only as a consumer. He evolved into a peddler which endeared him to his peers. Little did he know he was on the radar of the New York Federal authorities.
“I became a dealer. I decided if I want to make more and use more, I needed to get into the business. And that’s where my downward spiral began,” Aringo says, reflecting on how choices led him to become the deported son of a former minister.
Being an alien and on the wrong side of the law, he was a marked man. Authorities finally pounced on him. He was arraigned and sentenced to 30 years in jail but he was too lucky to be given an option of deportation which he opted for.
As it is the norm, a deportee, he came back home empty-handed without even his travel documents. His wife and three children were also absent. “I had no money. I had nothing,” he lamented, highlighting the stark reality his deported son’s status brought.
Back home his appetite for alcohol and drugs only increased but he could only afford cheap liquor which eventually caused him throat cancer.
His wife Catherine Boyane, also a reformed person with alcohol addiction, with whom they got married in May this year, recalls how it all began, dealing with challenges linked to being the deported son of a famous figure.
“The day we started noticing a swelling on his neck, we thought it was a sore throat. We never thought it would be cancer,” she said.
Throughout the interview, Aringo Jnr kept sipping tea or water as there is totally no saliva in his mouth.
The man who grew up in opulence has only a wall clock with his father’s name permanently inscribed on it. This triggers nostalgic memories from his days before becoming known as the deported son of a former government official.
The couple is now quietly living at the heart of a posh estate in Nakuru but in a shanty sandwiched between high-end houses.
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Source-sde.co.ke
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