THE STANDARD By
Abdimalik Hajir |
April 1st 2021 at 15:18:15 GMT +0300
Garissa Senate nominee Abdulkadir Mohamed Haji. [Boniface Okendo,Standard]
Powerful political figures, as well as local elders, worked behind the scenes to ensure Abdul Haji is elected unopposed for the Garissa senate seat, we can now reveal the intrigues.
The Standard has learned several people had shown interest in the seat but were immediately prevailed upon by their respective clan elders to step down.
In the advent of devolution, councils of elders have become powerful, sometimes summoning key political figures, they have also been used in lobbying for jobs and other issues in the northern counties.
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March 7th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Abdul Haji, who was among the first rescuers during the Westgate Mall attack on September 21, 2013. He has been endorsed to succeed his late father, Yusuf Haji. [File, Standard]
Abdul Haji, the soft-spoken man famously known for his courage to storm Westgate Mall during a terror attack, has been endorsed to succeed his late father Yusuf Haji as Garissa senator.
The family said in a statement after deliberations they have fronted the second-born son to finish his late father’s second-term in the Senate.
Haji, a businessman, told journalists he had never considered himself a brave man before Westgate Mall attack.
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