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Uhuru, MPs pay tribute to Statesman Wilson Nthenge

Ford Asili officials George Nthenge [left], Ngonya wa Gakonya [standing] and Harun Lempaka at Muthithi House in Nairobi on October 1994 [File]

President Uhuru Kenyatta has eulogised the late former Kamukunji MP George Gregory Wilson Nthenge.

Mzee Nthenge, who wore many hats in his lifetime including that of a maverick independence-era politician, former Cabinet Minister and businessman, passed away on Tuesday night aged 94. The president eulogised the former legislator as an elder Statesman and an icon of Kenya’s independence struggle and who played a pivotal role in entrenching democracy.

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