THE STANDARD
Abdulkadir Mohamed Haji (
pictured), Senator-elect for Garissa County, carries the hopes of residents who looked up to his late father, Garissa Senator Yusuf Haji.
“Some people expect me to fill the shoes of my father, but it is not an easy task,” the 46-year-old said in an interview yesterday.
He is modest in his concession that it will not be easy for him to follow in his father’s footsteps.
He will also have to put up with being known as the younger brother to Director of Public Prosecution Noordin Haji.
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But he came out of the shadows of the two men in a spectacular way in 2013, as the Westgate Shopping Mall hero.