THE STANDARD By
Moses Nyamori |
February 16th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
BBI Taskforce Vice-Chair Adams Oloo yesterday. [David Njaaga, Standard]
Yusuf Haji listened to about 7,000 individuals and received tens of memoranda from various interest groups to deliver the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report. Perceived as a quiet schemer and pro-government, Haji, who until his death yesterday was the Garissa Senator, steered the 14-member team that was characterised by tense political intrigues and mistrust during the collection of views and report writing.
The former provincial administrator further led the team in a validation process that culminated in the second document launched in October last year.
Bonchari MP Dies in Hospital
Bonchari MP John Oroo Oyioka
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Bonchari MP John Oroo Oyioka passed away on Monday evening, February 15, after a long illness.
The family confirmed that Oyioka died at the Aga Khan hospital, Kisumu County, where he had been admitted for some time.
The Gusii legislator was elected to parliament in 2013 under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after the High Court considered a petition he had filed against then winner Zebedeo Opore. The judges nullified Opore s victory under election malpractice laws.
Bonchari MP John Oroo Oyioka
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Oyioka, however, served for a period of six months after which the Court of Appeal overturned the decision made by the High Court. In the subsequent by-election, Oyioka lost to Opore.
THE STANDARD By
Roselyne Obala |
February 16th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Building Bridges Initiative task force chairman Yusuf Haji, during public participation at KICC, Nairobi in 2019. [File, Standard]
Yusuf Haji has been described as a disciplinarian, go-getter and a career civil servant who served the country with dedication and honour.
A father figure, and mentor to many, Haji, who was until his death the Garissa Senator, was a soft-spoken but firm, no-nonsense peace champion who had a sense of humour in discharging his legislative agenda.
His wise counsel and mastery of the political landscape was informed by his many years service in the Provincial Administration, transcending successive regimes.
THE STANDARD
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.