George Gregory Wilson Nthenge, the last Lancaster House veteran politician, has died at the age of 94.
Ootto Edward Musembi Nthenge, his eldest son, said his father died at their Buruburu home, where he had been resting after being discharged from the Nairobi Hospital a few weeks earlier.
Nthenge was a member LEGCO for the larger Machakos district in 1960.
He was one of the authors of Kenya’s first constitution and the team that traveled to Lancaster to agitate for Kenya’s freedom was the last remaining politician of the day after the death of retired President Daniel Moi.
In the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, he was the Member of Parliament for Iveti South.
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Between 1992 through 1997, he served as Kamukunji MP and is remembered as one of FORD’s founding members.
He survived a dawn road disaster in Maanzoni region, Athi river sub-county along Nairobi Mombasa, in November 1978, in which he lost his ten children and his first wife as he ferried them to school in Nairobi.
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