{"id":135134,"date":"2026-03-23T11:03:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/former-kirinyaga-senator-daniel-karaba-dies\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:03:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:03:01","slug":"former-kirinyaga-senator-daniel-karaba-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/former-kirinyaga-senator-daniel-karaba-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Kirinyaga Senator Daniel Karaba dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Former Kirinyaga Senator Daniel Karaba passed away on Monday morning at the age of 78 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Announcing his demise, Kirinyaga County Governor Anne Waiguru mourned Karaba as a distinguished son of Kirinyaga, whose life was defined by service, humility, and a deep commitment to education and leadership.<\/p>\n<p>In her message of condolence, Governor Waiguru described Mwalimu Karaba as having built a remarkable career as a teacher, principal, and education leader before serving as a two-term Member of Parliament for Kirinyaga Central and later as Senator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have lost a distinguished son of Kirinyaga, Daniel Karaba, whose life was defined by service, humility, and a deep commitment to education and leadership. Mwalimu Karaba built a remarkable career as a teacher, principal, and education leader before serving as a two-term Member of Parliament for Kirinyaga Central and later as Senator.\u201d Goernor Waiguru mourned.<\/p>\n<p>The former senator, popularly known as Mwalimu Karaba built his career in the education sector, rising through ranks from a teacher to a deputy principal and later principal of various schools including, Kagumo High School, Highway Secondary School, Kianyaga High School, Kirimara High School, Njegas Secondary School.<\/p>\n<p>Karaba was also the Chair of Secondary Schools Heads Association between 1984 and 1998.<\/p>\n<p>He ventured into politics in 2002, winning the Kirinyaga Central parliamentary seat on a NARC party ticket. In 2007 he lost the seat to\u00a0John Ngata Kariuki. Karaba filled a petition challenging the election. In October 2010 the\u00a0Supreme Court\u00a0nullified the election. In February 2011 Karaba lost to Joseph Gitari.<\/p>\n<p>The late Karaba served as Senator for Kirinyaga County from 2013 to 2017, after previously representing Kirinyaga Central as a two-term Member of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>At the Senate, he served as a chairman of education committee in the 9th parliament and was given the same role in the 11th parliament as the Chairman of the Senate Education Committee and was also a member of two Senate committees, the Committee on Delegated Legislation and Committee on Parliamentary Broadcasting and Library.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/former-kirinyaga-senator-daniel-karaba-dies\/\">Former Kirinyaga Senator Daniel Karaba dies<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Kirinyaga Senator Daniel Karaba passed away on Monday morning at the age of 78 years. Announcing his demise, Kirinyaga County Governor Anne Waiguru mourned Karaba as a distinguished son of Kirinyaga, whose life was defined by service, humility, and a deep commitment to education and leadership. In her message of condolence, Governor Waiguru described [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}