Yusuf Haji
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Mohamed Yusuf Haji EGH |
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| Maxamed Yuusuf Xaaji | |
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| Member of the Kenyan Senate | |
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Assumed office 28 March 2013 |
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| Constituency | Garissa County |
| Minister of State for Defence | |
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In office 8 January 2008 – 26 April 2013 |
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| President | Mwai Kibaki |
| Preceded by | Njenga Karume |
| Succeeded by | Raychelle Omamo |
| Member of the National Assembly of Kenya | |
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In office 2003–2013 |
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| Constituency | Ijara |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
23 December 1940 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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