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    Kenyan Internal Security Minister kiled in chopper crash

    As Kenyans continue to mourn the death of its Internal Security Minister George Saitoti, Eurocopter, the manufacturer of civil and military helicopter that killed the minister, said it will help to investigate the cause of the crash. Two bodyguards and two pilots were also among killed in the crash.

    The Internal Security Minister Prof. George Saitoti, an American-trained economist and mathematician, was one of the most visible figures in Kenyan politics. For over a decade he was a deputy to former President Daniel Arap Moi. He was one of the contenders in the upcoming presidential candidates.

    The death of Saitoti is a “great tragedy that has befallen our country at this time as we are making elaborate preparations to hold peaceful elections,” Prime Minister Raila Odinga said at the scene of the crash, a forest in the city's outskirts.

    “As we speak now, nobody knows the cause of the accident,” Odinga said. “Nobody

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    Kenyan minister George Saitoti killed in helicopter crash

    An journalist for AFP news agency saw six charred bodies being removed from the wreckage.

    Another reporter at the en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film says debris of the burnt-out police helicopter were strewn in the brush.

    Prime Minister Raila Odinga, speaking at the site, described the deaths as a "great tragedy", and promised a thorough investigation into the cause of the crash.

    Leading politician

    George Saitoti had been a key figure in Kenyan politics, holding a number of senior ministerial posts over the last 30 years and becoming the country's longest-serving vice-president.

    The professor of mathematics joined Daniel arap Moi's government as a finance minister in , going on to become his vice-president in

    He briefly stepped down as education minister in over accusations he was involved in the Goldenberg financial scandal, but was reinstated when a Kenyan court ruled he should not be charged.

    After years as a senior mem

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    George Saitoti

    6th Vice President of Kenya

    George Musengi Saitoti, E.G.H. (3 August – 10 June ) was a Kenyan politician, businessman and American- and British-trained economist, mathematician and development policy thinker.

    As a mathematician, Saitoti served as Head of the Mathematics Department at the University of Nairobi, pioneered the founding of the African Mathematical Union and served as its vice-president from to

    As an economist, Saitoti served as the Executive Chairman of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in –91, and as President of the African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States in –, at the crucial phase of re-negotiating the new development partnership agreement to replace the expired Lomé Convention between the ACP bloc and the European Union (EU). His book The Challenges of Economic and Institutional Reforms in Africa[8] influenced practical policy directions on an array of areas during the turbulent s and s.

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