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    "content": "Hon. Members, I have this Communication to make. Hon. Members, it is with very deep shock that I learnt of the tragic passing on of hon. Prof. George Saitoti, EGH, MP, Minister of State in the Office of the President in charge of Provincial Administration and Internal Security and hon. Orwa Ojode, the Assistant Minister in that Ministry in a helicopter accident on Sunday, 10th June, 2012. The accident also claimed the lives of two security officers, namely, Inspector Joshua Tonkei and Senior Serjeant Thomas Murimi as well as two pilots; Capt. Luke Oyugi and Nancy Gituanja. Prof. Saitoti has had an illustrious and checkered career having served both in public and private sector for most of his life. The hon. Member was born in 1945. He went to Ololua Primary School and later proceeded to Mang’u High School for his secondary education. Between 1963 and 1967, he joined Grandeurs University in the United States of America (USA) where he studied Mathematics and Economics. In 1988, Prof. Saitoti received the first Grandeurs alumni achievement award; the highest honour the university bestows upon its graduates. He later moved to the United Kingdom (UK) where he acquired a Masters of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Sussex Breton. He enrolled for his doctoratal studies at the University of Warwick from which he acquired a PhD in Mathematics in 1972. Upon his graduation, Prof. Saitoti returned to Kenya in 1972 and commenced an illustrious intellectual career as a mathematics lecturer at the University of Nairobi rising to the position of Associate Professor in 1977 and Head of the Mathematics Department at the university between 1978 and 1983. Outside academia, Prof. Saitoti received several public appointments in recognition of his growing public and intellectual leaderships. On 3rd November, 1972, he was appointed the Chairman of the Agricultural Wages Council, a Committee member of the Natural Sciences Advisory Research Committee in 1979. In September, 1983, he was appointed the Chairperson of the Board of Directors for the Rift Valley Institute of Science and Technology. Prof. Saitoti further served in other public capacities as"
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