Veteran politician Joe Nyaga is dead. The former Cooperative Development Minister passed on while receiving treatment at a Nairobi hospital on Friday, his family confirmed. He is reported to have succumbed to Covid-19 related complications. Nyaga who was born in 1948 was a member of the then governing Kenya African National Union and a minister in former President Daniel Arap Moi’s office until quitting both the ministry and the party in the run-up to the 2002 general election. He was a member of the Orange Democratic Movement’s ‘Pentagon’ in the 2007 general electionMore to follow….

Source: Daily Nation December 11, 2020 12:28 UTC