THE STANDARD By
Allan Mungai |
February 16th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Family members carry the body of Garissa Senator Yusuf Haji into a hearse at Masjid Noor in South C, Nairobi. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard]
Garissa Senator Yusuf Haji was yesterday buried at the Lang ata cemetery in Nairobi, hours after his death.
Haji, 80, died at Aga Khan Hospital after a long illness. The long-serving politician and career civil servant had returned to the country a few days earlier from Turkey, where he was on treatment.
Mourners made their way to his residence tucked away on Riverside Drive in Nairobi, while others converged in Ijara, the constituency where the senator was born. He represented Ijara in the National Assembly for three terms.
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Garissa Senator and Chair of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) Taskforce Yusuf Haji is dead, the family has confirmed.
Haji, 80, died at the Aga Khan University Hospital on Monday morning.
According to family members, the Senator was flown from Turkey a fortnight ago and later admitted at Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, where he died Monday morning.
Haji was a long time administrator who served in various areas including the vast Rift Valley between 1970 and 1998. He was nominated to Parliament in 2002. And in 2007, he was elected to Parliament unopposed as Ijara MP.
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Haji was the Minister of Defence from 2008 to 2013 during Mwai Kibaki s administration and briefly served as the acting Minister of Internal Security and Provincial Affairs in 2012.