Veteran politician,Joe Nyaga is dead.

The family of former Cooperative Development Minister has confirmed that he passed on while receiving treatment at a Nairobi hospital today,Friday, at the age of 72.

He is reported to have succumbed to Covid-19 related complications.

Nyaga who was born in 1948 was a member of the then governing Kenya African National Union and a minister in former President Daniel Arap Moi’s office until quitting both the ministry and the party in the run-up to the 2002 general election.

He was a member of the Orange Democratic Movement’s ‘Pentagon’ in the 2007 general election