GG Kariuki dies

3,421 views · Published 30 June 2017 · 1:20 · Indexed 4 November 2026

Channel: NTV Kenya · 2017 · Sports

Watch on YouTube

Laikipia senator Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki popularly referred to as G.G Kariuki is dead. Kariuki passed on at a Nairobi hospital aged 79 this morning.


G.G was a veteran politician and oldest Senator of the 11th Parliament.
The senator, joined politics in 1959, served in the governments of retired President Daniel Arap Moi and that of the founding President Jomo Kenyatta.
He was the only lawmaker in Kenya who served in the first Parliament after Kenya’s independence in 1963.
Deputy Senate Speaker Kembi Gitura conveyed his condolences on behalf of Senate to the family and led editors of various media houses attending a Senate retreat in Mombasa to observe a moment of silence. Senate Speaker Ekwee Ethuro who is out of the country has eulogized the late senator as a political mentor to many and will be missed in parliament.

More from this channel

• 4:13 IEBC begins clearing candidates for MP countrywide

  NTV Kenya

  535 views · 1 June 2017

• 1:06 Sports journalist apologises for attack on Damian Marley

  NTV Kenya

  3,838 views · 2 June 2017

• 5:55 IEBC clears several candidates with integrity questions

  NTV Kenya

  2,556 views · 2 June 2017

• 2:17 Kenya Red Cross Society says the drought is still far from over

  NTV Kenya

  339 views · 2 June 2017

• 2:37 Retired Nyeri archbishop accused of speaking for the government during Madaraka Day prayer

  NTV Kenya

  3,551 views · 2 June 2017

• 3:53 Tanzanian farmers, like Kenyans, eagerly awaiting the use of GMOs - Food Friday

  NTV Kenya

  1,114 views · 2 June 2017

• 4:34 Iyanya performs some of his greatest hits on #theTrend

  NTV Kenya

  4,905 views · 2 June 2017

• 4:42 T412 perform 'Flee' on #TheTrend

  NTV Kenya

  3,928 views · 2 June 2017