NAIROBI (Halbeeg News) – Kenya government is planning to rename one of the roads Somali dominated neighbourhood, Eastliegh Yussuf Haji in honour of the late Garissa senator who passed mid last month.
Nairobi County Assembly members approved a motion calling for renaming of a road in Nairobi in honour of the late former Defence minister.
Nairobi County Assembly Majority Leader Abdi Guyo, the mover of the motion, said discussions were held with the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) over the process, with the Major General Mohamed Badi-led administration settling on the road in Eastleigh.
“This (the renaming) will be effected in the next two weeks because we are already in agreement with NMS. It was something that we had discussed even before we brought the motion so it will be implemented. NMS has identified First Avenue in Eastleigh,” said Mr Guyo.
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.
Mr Haji was also the chairperson of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) task force.
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.
In 2014, Haji oversaw the signing of a peace agreement between communities in Wajir and Mandera counties to end the perennial clashes.
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