ODM chief Raila Odinga ally Joe Nyaga dies from COVID-19 at Nairobi Hospital

Former ODM Pentagon Member Joe Nyaga. PHOTO | STAR

 Former Cooperative Development Minister and ODM pentagon member Joe Nyaga succumbed to COVID-19, dies at Nairobi Hospital.

His family who confirmed the death said he died from Covid-19.

Joseph Nyagah was born in 1948.

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

He contested the election in Gachoka Constituency as an opposition National Rainbow Coalition candidate.