The last Lancaster House veteran politician George Wilson Nthenge is dead.

 

Nthenge gave up the ghost on the evening of Tuesday, August 10, at his Buruburu home, where he has been resting after being discharged from the Nairobi Hospital, Citizen reported.

 

The former Iveti South MP, who died at the age of 94, was among the authors of Kenya's first constitution and in 1960, he served as a member of LEGCO.

 

After the death of President Daniel Moi, Nthenge was the remaining politician among the team that travelled to Lancaster to vouch for Kenya's independence.

 

Nthenge, who also served as Kamukunji MP between 1992 to 1997, survived a tragic road accident that claimed the lives of his 11 family members.

 

In the accident that occurred in November 1978 at Athi River along Nairobi-Mombasa road, the politician lost his 10 children and his first wife, Emelda Damaris Mukui.

 

The politician was ferrying the children to school in Nairobi when the incident, still the most horrific family accident in history, occurred.

 

Death wish

In a past interview with Nation, Nthenge said he wished to be buried directly above his wife, Emelda.

 

He said his grave should be dug four feet deep, two above the remains of his wife.

 

Also, he directed his second wife, Scholastica, to be buried two feet above him in the same grave when she dies.

He has been survived by seven children.

 

Nthenge's death follows the demise of former Gem MP Jakoyo Midiwo.

 

Midiwo, who was also ODM leader Raila Odinga's cousin, breathed his last on the evening of Monday, June 14.