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Yusuf Haji

Mohamed Yusuf Haji
EGH
Maxamed Yuusuf Xaaji
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Member of the Kenyan Senate
Assumed office
28 March 2013
Constituency Garissa County
Minister of State for Defence
In office
8 January 2008 – 26 April 2013
President Mwai Kibaki
Preceded by Njenga Karume
Succeeded by Raychelle Omamo
Member of the National Assembly of Kenya
In office
2003–2013
Constituency Ijara
Personal details
Born (1940-12-23) 23 December 1940 (age 76)
Garissa District, British Kenya
Nationality Kenyan
Political party KANU
TNA
Alma mater University of Birmingham (Dip)
Religion Islam
Ethnicity Somali

Mohamed Yusuf Haji (Somali: Maxamed Yuusuf Xaaji) (born 23 December 1940) is a Kenyan politician. He was the Minister of Defence of Kenya from 2008 to 2013, and briefly served as its acting Minister of Internal Security and Provincial Affairs in 2012. He has served in the Senate of Kenya since 2013.

Haji was born in 1940 in Garissa District in the North Eastern Province (Northern Frontier District) to an ethnic Somali family. He hails from the Abdalla subclan of the Ogaden Darod.

For his post-secondary education, Haji earned a diploma from the University of Birmingham, where he majored in Management and Finance Control.

Haji is Muslim and is married.

Haji began his professional career in administration and management. He joined the Provincial Administration of Kenya as a District Officer, and went on to serve as Provincial Commissioner between 1970 and 1997.

In 1998, Haji was nominated as a member of the Kenyan Parliament. He was later elected an official Member of Parliament on a Kenya African National Union (KANU) ticket.

From 1998 to 2001, Haji worked as an Assistant Minister in the Office of the President. He subsequently acted as the Office's Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs in 2002.

On a KANU ticket, Haji was elected to represent the Ijara Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya at the 2007 parliamentary elections.

On 8 January 2008, Haji was appointed Kenya's Minister of State for Defence after the 27 December 2007 general elections.


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