Nirobi (SONNA):Senator Yusuf Haji Dies at Aga Khan Hospital<\/p>\n
“Garissa Senator Yusuf Haji is dead.”A family member confirmed to the kenyan media that the Senator died while receiving treatment at Aga Khan Hospital, Nairobi at 5 a.m.<\/p>\n
The lawmaker fell ill in\u00a0September 2020 and\u00a0underwent surgery\u00a0at the same institution that lasted\u00a0four hours.<\/p>\n
It was reported that Haji slipped and dislocated his hip at his home in Garissa.<\/p>\n
He served as the chair of the\u00a0Building Bridges Initiative (BBI)\u00a0Taskforce after being appointed by President Uhuru Kenyatta<\/p>\n
Served as the chair of the\u00a0Building Bridges Initiative (BBI)\u00a0Taskforce after being appointed by President Uhuru<\/p>\n
Haji has left eight children including Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji and Abdul Haji, a businessman.\u00a0At the time of his passing, the lawmaker was\u00a080 years old.<\/p>\n
He had been flown to Turkey for treatment but recently returned to the country and was\u00a0admitted at the Aga Khan Hospital\u00a0in Nairobi.<\/p>\n
Haji’s\u00a0public service started in the Provincial Administration\u00a0in 1960 as a District Officer where he rose through the ranks\u00a0to serve as Provincial Commissioner between 1970 and 1997.<\/p>\n
In\u00a01998, he received his first nomination to serve in the National Assembly and was later elected on\u00a0Kenya African National Union (KANU) party ticket. Haji also\u00a0served in various capacities including as\u00a0an Assistant Minister in the Office of the President.<\/p>\n
In January 2008, Haji was appointed to serve as the Minister of Defence where\u00a0he spearheaded\u00a0dialogue with the government of Somalia to fight al Shabaab.<\/p>\n
He was also appointed as the\u00a0acting Minister of Internal Security and Provincial Affairs after the death of George Saitoti.<\/p>\n
Until his death, Yusuf served as\u00a0the Chairman of the Senate Security and Foreign Relations Committee<\/p>\n
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Nirobi (SONNA):Senator Yusuf Haji Dies at Aga Khan Hospital “Garissa Senator Yusuf Haji is dead.”A family member confirmed to the kenyan media that the Senator died while receiving treatment at Aga Khan Hospital, Nairobi at 5 a.m. The lawmaker fell ill in\u00a0September 2020 and\u00a0underwent surgery\u00a0at the same institution that lasted\u00a0four hours. It was reported that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local","8":"category-news","9":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402896,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402892\/revisions\/402896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}