Laikipia Senator GG Kariuki, stunned mourners during a recent burial in Laikipia when he compared his limping walk to a man suffering from syphilis.
Speaking in Marina area in Ngobit, the 77-year-old said: “Najua mnashindwa kwa nini huyu mzee anatembea kama ako na ile kitu tunaita kaswende” (I know you are wondering why this old man is walking like a man suffering from syphilis),” he said making some elderly women to cover their mouths.
“Lakini hii imeletwa na ile sport mimi hupenda na yenye imenifanya niishi hii maisha yote (the is a result of my love for martial arts, a sport which has made it possible for me to live this long),” he explained during the burial of former Laikipia County Assembly Majority Leader Ephraim Mwangi Kamakia.
GG, who recently graduated with a PhD in International Relations from the University of Nairobi, credited his love for martial arts for his long life.
“It is my life and if I stop engaging in martial arts, I will certainly be looking forward to my burial,” he said, adding that, “Even if I am limping and leaders behind me gang up and attempt to attack, you will be shocked by what will happen to them,” he added.
The oldest Senator in Kenya said he pursued his doctorate to prove to the youth that “it can be done.”
“I am showing you that everything is possible and at any time,” he said.
In 2001, GG published his thinly fleshed autobiography, Illusion of Power: Reflections on Fifty Years in Kenyan Politics, about his time as MP for Laikipia and Laikipia West during the regimes of Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi, during which he served as MP for 20 uninterrupted years after independence in 1963.
