George Saitoti

George Saitoti ( born August 3, 1945, † 10 June, 2012 kibiku, Ngong, near Nairobi ) was a Kenyan politician and mathematician.

Life

Saitoti visited the Mangu High and studied and received his PhD in mathematics from Brandeis University in Waltham, east of the U.S. state of Massachusetts, at the University of Sussex, Falmer, East Sussex, UK and at the University of Warwick in Coventry, UK. From 1972 he taught at the University of Nairobi and was a professor and dean of the mathematical department of the University of Nairobi. He was the founder of the African Mathematical Union (AMU ) and from 1976 to 1979 as Vice President. He studied economics at Cambridge School of Weston (CSW ) in Weston, Massachusetts.

He became Finance Minister in 1983 the government of President Daniel arap Moi, Vice President in 1989. In the early 1990s he was involved in the Goldenberg scandal. In 1992 he became Minister of Planning and National Development, 2001/ 02 he was Minister of State, after the 2002 elections, he became Minister of Education, Science and Technology in the " National Alliance " of Mwai Kibaki.

1990/91 he was Executive Chairman of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. 1999/2000 he was president of the African Caribbean and Pacific ( ACP) Group of States.

George Saitoti was Secretary of Homeland Security in the government of Mwai Kibaki. He was regarded as a candidate for the next presidential election.

In the Kibaki government, he was known as an opponent and critic of radical Islamist Al- Schabaab militia in neighboring Somalia. The Kenyan government went with their own troops action against the militias since then attacks in Kenya were perpetrated. He regularly visited the combat zones and died in a helicopter crash along with his deputy, Joshua Orwa Ojode, and four other occupants of the helicopter were killed.