Garissa Senator Mohamed Yusuf Haji dies at 80
Monday February 15 2021
Garissa Senator Mohamed Yusuf Haji who has died at the Aga Khan Hospital on February 15, 2021. FILE PHOTO | NMG
By Amina Wako
He was aged 80.
Mr Haji was also the chairperson of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) task force.
Mr Haji joined Kenya’s provincial administration in 1960 as a district officer (DO) and rose through the ranks to become one of the country’s most powerful provincial commissioners.
He retired from the provincial administration in 1998.
In 2002, he was nominated to Parliament and in 2007, he was elected as the Member of Parliament for Ijara Constituency on a Kenya African National Union (Kanu) ticket.