1. George Saitoti joined politics as a nominated Member of Parliament and Minister for Finance in 1983, rising to become Kenya's longest-serving Vice-President, a proficient Minister for education, Internal Security and Provincial Administration and Foreign Affairs.
George Saitoti left KANU and joined the opposition, becoming a kingpin figure in the negotiations that led to the "NARC Revolution" in 2002.
George Saitoti was running as a candidate to succeed President Mwai Kibaki when he died in a helicopter crash in 2012.
George Saitoti was born on 3 August 1945 and brought up in Maasailand, where he spent his childhood herding cattle in line with the Masai culture, and attending school.
George Saitoti attended Ololua Primary School, Kajiado where he acquired his basic education in the 1950s.
George Saitoti joined the ranks of Mang'u High School's highly decorated alumni including Kenya's third President, Mwai Kibaki, former Vice-President Moody Awori, Catholic Archbishop Ndingi Mwana-a-Nzeki, the late Environment Minister John Michuki, the late Trade Unionist and former Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Tom Mboya, and late Cardinal Maurice Michael Otunga.
George Saitoti was one of the recipients of the Kennedy Airlift scholarships in 1963 at the age of 18.
George Saitoti studied at Brandeis University between 1963 and 1967 where he was a mathematician.
In 1988, George Saitoti received the first Brandeis Alumni Achievement Award, the highest honour the university bestows upon its graduates.
George Saitoti later moved to the United Kingdom where he acquired a Master of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Sussex, Brighton.
George Saitoti enrolled for his doctoral studies at the University of Warwick where he acquired his PhD in mathematics in 1972; writing his dissertation under the supervision of professor Luke Hodgkin in the area of algebraic topology under the topic: Mod-2 K-Theory of the Second Iterated Loop Space on a Sphere.
George Saitoti was elected the AMU's vice-president, a post which he held on up to 1979.
George Saitoti served in other public capacities as chairman of Mumias Sugar Company and the Kenya Commercial Bank.
George Saitoti emphasised the importance of institutional reforms and sound public policies to sustainable economic growth in Africa.
Long before joining mainstream politics, George Saitoti had a stint in the legislative duties.
For more than 25 years, professor George Saitoti has represented Kajiado North since 1988, recapturing the seat in consecutive elections in 1992,1997,2002 and 2007.
George Saitoti became Kenya's longest sitting vice-president serving for 13 years under President Daniel arap Moi between May 1989 and January 1998 and again between April 1999 and August 2002.
When George Saitoti was appointed vice-president on 1 May 1989, KANU was back-pedaling on re-democratizing the country.
George Saitoti was in the eye of a nasty succession storm that rocked KANU before and after the 1997 elections.
George Saitoti gracefully bowed out of the race, living to fight another day, but not without his famous line: There comes a time when the nation is much more important than an individual.
George Saitoti walking out of KANU and became a key LDP figure.
George Saitoti became a member of the NARC Summit, the highest organ of the coalition.
George Saitoti was the man in charge of implementing NARC's flagship and globally acclaimed free primary education in Kenya.
George Saitoti canvassed for the government-sponsored draft Constitution, which lost to a combined KANU-LDP campaign during the November 2005 referendum.
The courts ordered a vote recount in Kajiado North, but George Saitoti beat his closest competitor, Moses Ole Sakuda with close to 20,000 votes.
George Saitoti blamed his re-election glitch on intrigues of power by KANU forces within the PNU campaign which underwrote his rivals to knock him out of politics and potentially out of the 2012 Presidential elections.
George Saitoti retained the Internal Security docket even after President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga established the power-sharing government that ended the 2008 post-election crisis.
Between October 2010 and August 2011, George Saitoti was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs on an acting capacity after the incumbent, Moses Wetangula, stepped aside to allow investigations on alleged corruption.
In July 2009, George Saitoti was appointed to head a special cabinet sub-committee formed to oversee the affairs of the International Criminal Court in Kenya.
George Saitoti came out strongly criticising the invocation of President Kibaki in the ICC debate, calling for sobriety from politicians.
George Saitoti has maintained a legal interpretation on whether the suspects can vie for presidency in the coming elections, stressing that only the constitution can bar or let them free to enter the race.
In November 2010, Musyoka, Kenyatta and George Saitoti signed a protocol to form and transform the PNU Alliance into a common political vehicle for the 2013 presidential race.
On 13 February 2006, George Saitoti voluntarily stepped aside from his ministerial docket to pave way for investigations into the allegations.
George Saitoti ignored a High Court Order to summon retired President Daniel arap Moi, Musalia Mudavadi and Nicholas Biwott as witnesses.
In November 2011, George Saitoti confirmed that he was in the race to succeed President Kibaki, who is set to retire after the next general election.
George Saitoti reiterated his candidature in January 2012, continuing to tour Kenya, with meet-the-people excursions to the Rift Valley, Eastern and Central provinces.
Uhuru is widely thought as the presumptive successor to President Kibaki, but George Saitoti was emerging, as a likely candidate.
George Saitoti was a businessman who had interests in agriculture, horticulture, real estates, hospitality and pastoralism.