Dennis Onsarigo

About

Journalist turned Press Secretary for the 2022 campaign of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Ralia Odinga as was announced in a press release in February 2022. Using his gift for media communication and his journalistic integrity, he was hired to coordinate all media relations for the campaign. Prior to taking the position, he worked in journalism for more than a decade, his last post as an investigative journalist for the KTN 24-hour news channel in Nairobi, Kenya.

Before Fame

He studied Communications and Political Science at the University of Nairobi; he graduated with a diploma in Broadcast Journalism. He would continue on in pursuit of a Master's in Governance, Peace, and Security. After his Bachelors he worked in broadcast and print journalism. He had a crime series on KTN called Case Files. In it, he would interview sentenced persons serving time in prisons concerning their lives and the crime they were sentenced to serve time for.

Trivia

He is verified on Twitter with a following of more than 750,000 to his frequent updates on the movements of the ODM campaign. His Instagram grid has more than 5,000 followers who are given more behind-the-scenes footage of his day-to-day life as a father and son to a proud Kenyan family. 

Family Life

He has two daughters. He grieved with Twitter in 2020 with a post that simply said "I LOST MY DAD," as an announcement concerning the death of his father.

Associated With

A fan of Game of Thrones, in a post to his Instagram in April of 2019 he spoke about how much he identified with the willful and resourceful underdog Arya Stark, played by Maisie Williams.