Veteran politician Simeon Nyachae died in Nairobi Hospital on 1st February 2021.
He served as MP for Nyaribari Chache for 15 years before losing to Dr. Monda.
He also served as Minister for Finance and Agriculture besides being Chief Secretary in Daniel Moi govt.
Facts you should know about Simeon Nyachae
- Having born on 6 February 1932 , he died in 2021 aged 88 years old. He came from Nyaribari, in Kisii County his dad was a powerful colonial chief, Musa Nyandusi.
- In 1941 he joined Nyanchwa Seventh-day Adventist School and later in 1947, he joined Kereri Intermediate School. In 1949, he joined Kisii Government African School but in 1953 he dropped out of school to work with his father as a clerk at the chief camp. He later attended Torquay Academy and Churchill College, Cambridge, both in the United Kingdom.
- Upon his return to Kenya in 1960, Nyachae was posted as a District Officer in Kangundo Division and later returning to Churchill College, Cambridge for a diploma course in public administration.
- He returned to Kenya and was promoted to serve as a District commissioner, later he rose to the post of a Provincial Commissioner (between 1965–1979 and later chief secretary in the Civil Service under the Kenyatta and Moi governments.
- Nyachae was arguably one of the richest and most prominent personalities from Kisii County. But his wealthy was fraudulently acquired through corrupt deals .
- In 1992 he became MP for Nyaribari Chache Constituency where he would go and serve for 15 years . In 2002, he came third as a Presidential candidates that favored the win for Mwai Kibaki under Rainbow Coalition that had Raila Odinga behind it.
- In 2004 after Kibai fallout with Raila Odinga, Nyanchae was called upon by to be the Minister for Energy and later for Roads
- Nyachae was named in the Waki report as one of the masterminds of the 2007-2008 post-election violence in which more that 1,600 people died. He was believed to have organised attacks on ODM opposition leaders
- He runs a chain of business ranging from agriculture, banking, real estate, transportation and manufacturing based in all major cities in Kenya including Narok, Kisii, Kericho, Sotik, Kisumu, Mombasa, Nyeri and Nairobi.
- Prior to falling ill in 2018, 86 year-old Simeon Nyachae’s family included four wives and over 20 children
