The late former minister for Co-operatives, Joseph William Nthiga Nyagah, was an influential government figure in the NARC administration under President Mwai Kibaki and one of the five leaders of the Orange Democratic Movement dubbed the 'pentagon'.  Nyagah, who died on December 11, came from a political family in Gachoka, Embu County. The 72-year-old scaled the political summit on the shoulders of his late father, Jeremiah Nyagah, a notable and respected politician during Mzee Kenyatta's era.   Jeremiah's other children would also enter into active public service with Joe's younger brother, Norman Nyagah, serving as the Gachoka and Kamukunji MP between...