Senator Laikipia County is dead. He died today morning at a Nairobi hospital aged 79.
According to a close family member, the Senator was admitted at the city hospital after suffering some health complications.
Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki was a Kenyan politician and was the current senator for Laikipia county. He was a member of The National Alliance party and a coalition member of Jubilee Alliance. Since his election in 1963, he has served as a member of Parliament for 20 uninterrupted years.
G G Kariuki, who recently graduated with a PhD in International Relations from the University of Nairobi, credited his love for martial arts for his long life.
“It is my life and if I stop engaging in martial arts, I will certainly be looking forward to my burial,” he said, adding that, “Even if I am limping and leaders behind me gang up and attempt to attack, you will be shocked by what will happen to them,” he added.
More details about his death and family are yet to be released.