{"id":152092,"date":"2020-11-17T15:44:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T12:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ke\/?p=152092"},"modified":"2020-11-17T15:44:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T12:44:40","slug":"former-tusker-project-fame-star-living-on-the-streets-finally-rescued-after-his-plight-went-viral-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/former-tusker-project-fame-star-living-on-the-streets-finally-rescued-after-his-plight-went-viral-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Tusker Project Fame star living on the streets finally rescued after his plight went viral (Photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A good Samaritan has ran to the rescue of former Tusker Project Fame star, David Major Ogola who was spotted looking miserable on the streets of Nairobi.<\/p>\n

Yesterday night, a series of photos of an unkempt, stray man surface. Only for curious Kenyans to identify the face to a guy who once staged an incredible performance with his soothing voice on the popular TPF show.<\/p>\n

Also read: Alarm after former Tusker Project Fame star is spotted languishing in poverty on the streets of Nairobi (Photos)<\/a><\/p>\n

A decade later, this is the unfortunate image of him that many get to see.<\/p>\n

The good Samaritan<\/h2>\n

David Major Ogola has now been taken to safety after former TPF alumnus and current comedian Alvan Gatitu successfully traced the whereabouts of the former TPF star.<\/p>\n

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Alvan Gatitu runs to David Ogola\u2019s rescue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This was through the help of one Margaret, who found him at a hangout joint in Thika, got him cleaned up and even made his hair to make him look a bit more decent.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are talking, he is a bit out of it now but keeping you posted in a few. Wacha tuongee,<\/em>\u201d Alvan informed the public.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Former Tusker Project Fame star finally rescued<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kate actress offers to help<\/h2>\n

Alvan Gatitu\u2019<\/span>s kind actions have attracted the attention of top Kenyan personalities among them Catherine Kamau aka Kate actress who painfully penned;<\/p>\n

\u201cMy heart is broken into pieces. A good samaritan found him. @alvangatitu is with him now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fans openly shared details of individuals they believed could help in getting back the former TPF contestant in shape and the actress was more than grateful.<\/p>\n

David Ogola alias D Major is claimed to have lived in the streets for several months, recently getting spotted along Mirema drive, Kasarani, in the last couple of days.<\/p>\n

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D Major languishing in poverty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The former TPF star is alleged to be the son of the late Dr Margaret Ogola, a renowned Kenyan award-winning author best known for her novel \u2018The River and the Source\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

She however succumbed to cancer in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A good Samaritan has ran to the rescue of former Tusker Project Fame star, David Major Ogola who was spotted looking miserable on the streets of Nairobi. Yesterday night, a series of photos of an unkempt, stray man surface. Only for curious Kenyans to identify the face to a guy who once staged an incredible […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6063,"featured_media":152109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310],"tags":[134600,134601,20,96142],"class_list":["post-152092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-alvan-gatitu-news","tag-david-major-ogola-news","tag-ghafla-entertainment-news","tag-kate-actress-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152110,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152092\/revisions\/152110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}