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As things currently stand, in a single stroke of clinical Judicial arbitration, the late Garissa Senator Yusuf Haji has just moved from being a decorated long-time serving civil servant, to a disgraced man who died as the head of an illegal outfit.
This puts him in the dubious company of dead people like Michael George Mwaniki, AKA Mwanii, or Sparta, the felled leader of the dreaded Kayole outfit, Gaza; a criminal gang from Eastlands, Nairobi, which, at the height of its power, killed both civilians and police officers, robbing the former of their money, and the latter of their guns.
Yesterday, in a ruling by a five-member Judges bench, the BBI steering committee was declared as having been an unlawful body. The judges ruled that the taskforce, which was headed by Haji was unconstitutional, and consequently, the report that the BBI came up with was constitutional too.
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.
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.
It was during his tenure when the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) troops were deployed to Somalia to fight Al Shabaab.
Haji served in the Senate since 2013 until his death. He was a known peacemaker, mostly working on reconciliation efforts between warring clans.
In 2014, Haji oversaw the signing of a peace agreement between communities in Wajir and Mandera counties to end the perennial clashes.
The agreement was signed by Degodia and Garre communities in the presence of National Cohesion and Integration Commission chairman Francis ole Kaparo and Haji in efforts to spearhead peace in the region.
In 2015, as he served as the chairman of the Senate National Security and Foreign Relations Committee, Haji proposed that individuals from indigenous communities be recruited in security teams to help fight against cattle rustling because of their knowledge of terrains.
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