In April 2010 he lost the parliamentary seat after a court nullified the 2007 election results of Juja Constituency citing irregularities [2] A by-election was subsequently held on 20 September 2010, but Thuo was left third after William Kabogo Gitau (NARC-Kenya) and Alice Wambui of Kenya National Congress.
[3] Previously, George Thuo (GT) worked as an Accountant and later Managing Director of Kenya Bus Services.
In the meantime, he was Managing Director of Trendsetters tyre company, a position he left to join politics in 2007.
GT who was an outgoing, loud speaking, direct, open minded and regarded as having a larger than life personality, left behind his wife Judy Thuo and three children, a son and two daughters.
He died on 17 November 2013 at Porkies Pub in Thika town, Kiambu county, Kenya.