Post by mzee on Jan 9, 2012 17:42:24 GMT 3
This year’s elections is said to be the largest and probably the most competitive also. We expect a tight race between ODM and whichever constellation might come off the blocks. I say come off the blocks because none other than ODM know where there are going or coming from. Parties are just groping in darkness try to form alliance and counter alliances. It’s a year when every Dick and Harry has declared his interest in running for president.
Here are Kenyans who have declared their interest in the presidency. Who will you vote for? OBS! Information courtesy wikipedia and facebook
Paul Muite
Paul Kibugi Muite (born 18 Apr 1945,) is a Kenyan lawyer, politician and a prominent figure in Kenya's struggle to remove the Single party dictatorship, established by the Kenya African National Union in 1982, during the 1990s. He served a Vice Chairman of Ford-Kenya, whilst it was under the tutelage of Oginga Odinga and is the founding chairman of the Safina Party of Kenya. He has served several terms in Kenya's parliament as member for the Kabete Constituency.
George Saitoti
George Saitoti is both Maasai, and Kikuyu. by origin. Ironically, Human Rights Watch accused him of inciting ethnic violence in the Rift Valley Province during the run-up to the 1992 Kenyan general elections, violence that was mainly directed against the Kikuyu.
He studied at Mang'u High School and received his undergraduate education in the U.S. at Brandeis University on a Wien Scholarship. Saitoti obtained a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Warwick in 1972 in the area of algebraic topology.
On August 30, 2002, Saitoti was dismissed as Vice-President by President Daniel arap Moi for disloyalty; Saitoti was also removed from his post as Vice-Chairman of the Kenyan African National Union (KANU). In the December 2002 election, he won the Kajiado North Constituency seat for the NARC party.
On 13 February 2006 Saitoti's resignation as Minister of Education was announced by President Mwai Kibaki in a television address, after accusations that he was involved in the Goldenberg scandal. The Kenyan High Court ruled on 31 July 2006 that Saitoti should not be charged over the Goldenberg scandal. On 15 November 2006 he was reinstated as Education Minister by Kibaki.
In the Cabinet appointed by Kibaki on January 8, 2008, following the controversial December 2007 election, Saitoti was named Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security in the Office of the President. After a power-sharing agreement was reached between Kibaki and Raila Odinga, both of whom claimed victory in the 2007 election, Saitoti retained his post in the grand coalition Cabinet named on April 13, 2008.
Saitoti has expressed his desire to run for President of Kenya in 2012.
Uhuru Kenyatta
Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta (born October 26, 1961) is a Kenyan politician, currently serving as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Finance and MP for Gatundu South Constituency. He is the Chairman of Kenya African National Union (KANU), the former ruling party, which is currently part of the Party of National Unity (PNU). Nominated to Parliament in 2001, he became Minister for Local Government under President Daniel arap Moi and, despite his political inexperience, was favored by President Moi as his successor; Kenyatta ran as KANU's candidate in the December 2002 presidential election, but lost to opposition candidate Mwai Kibaki by a large margin. He subsequently became Leader of the Opposition in Parliament. He backed Kibaki for re-election in the December 2007 presidential election and was named Minister of Local Government by Kibaki in January 2008, before becoming Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade in April 2008 as part of a coalition government. He is the son of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first president (1964–1978). His name, Uhuru, is Swahili for "freedom".
He attended St Mary's School in Nairobi. From there he went on to study political science at Amherst College, USA.
Mutuvi Musyimi
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mutava Musyimi is a Kenyan politician. He belongs to the Party of National Unity and was elected to represent the Gachoka Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya since the Kenyan parliamentary election, 2007.
Mutava Musyimi was born in 1952 to Tabitha Kisilu and veteran politician Stephen Kisilu (both deceased) in Riakanau village, Embu District. He is the third born of eight children. He grew up in a Christian home, and attended Riakanau Primary School from 1959-1965. He later joined the prestigious Kangaru School, Embu in 1969. He attended the University of Nairobi (Kenyatta Campus- which later became Kenyatta University) in 1972 to pursue a Bachelor of Education degree. It was during this time that he felt the call to become a man of the cloth. After much thought, prayer and consulting, he decided to follow this route, though it took him down a different path. He later joined University of London for a Bachelor of Divinity degree and thereafter the Trinity Divinity School, Illinois for a Master of Theology degree. Upon returning to Kenya, he joined the Nairobi Baptist Church as a Pastor from 1979- 1993. He married his wife Nyambura Musyimi on February 4th, 1984 and later had two children; a daughter, Mueni-Nyokabi (25), a lawyer and theology teacher and a son, Syano (23) a PhD candidate.
Charity Ngilu
Charity Kaluki Ngilu (born 1952) is a Kenyan politician. She was Minister of Health from 2003 until 2007 and was appointed as Minister of Water and Irrigation in April 2008.
Ngilu was born in Mbooni, Makueni District in 1952. She was educated at Alliance Girls High School, then worked as a secretary for Central Bank of Kenya, before becoming an entrepreneur. She acted as a director of a plastics extrusion factory.
In Kenya's first ever multiparty elections held in 1992, Charity Ngilu pulled off a big surprise by capturing the Kitui central constituency seat on the Democratic Party ticket.
In the December 1997 general election, she ran for the presidency and along with Wangari Maathai became the first ever female presidential candidates in Kenya. Ngilu then represented the Social Democratic Party of Kenya. She finished fifth.
Later, she joined National Party of Kenya. In the December 2002 general election, her party was part of the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC). The coalition went on to win the elections, and President Mwai Kibaki appointed her as Minister of Health when he named his Cabinet on January 3, 2003. Ngilu was seen as a new school member in the government, as opposed to old school members like John Michuki and President Kibaki.
She was also appointed NARC chairperson. However, she was left stranded after the Liberal Democratic Party left the coalition after the defeat of the Government-sponsored draft constitution, while most of the remaining NARC members founded the new Narc-Kenya party, though NARC is still officially the ruling party. She has been viewed as a flip flopper who could not decide whether she was in the government between 2003 and 2007 or against the government.
On July 31, 2007, Ngilu took Ann Njogu, a protester, to a hospital after Njogu had allegedly been beaten by police. Ngilu was then accused of helping Njogu escape the police, and she was arrested on August 2 before being released on bail. She reported to the headquarters of the Criminal Investigations Department on August 3 as she was ordered, but would not leave her car, saying that she should either be charged or released. Later on the same day the Nairobi High Court ruled that Ngilu's arrest was illegal, and she was allowed to leave. According to Ngilu's lawyer, she was not aiding an escape and Njogu was returned to the police by the hospital a day after she was taken there.
On October 5, 2007, Ngilu announced her support for the Orange Democratic Movement and its presidential candidate, Raila Odinga, in the December 2007 general election; she has compared Odinga to Nelson Mandela. She initially said that she was remaining in the government, despite backing Kibaki's main rival. However, her dismissal from the government by Kibaki was announced on October 6.
Ngilu was re-elected to her seat from Kitui Central in the December 2007 parliamentary election. Kibaki won the presidential election according to official results, but this was disputed by the ODM, and a violent crisis developed. The crisis was eventually resolved with a power-sharing agreement, and in the grand coalition Cabinet named on April 13, 2008 and sworn in on April 17, Ngilu was appointed as Minister of Water and Irrigation.
Martha Karua
Martha Wangari Karua (born 22 September 1957) is a Kenyan politician. She is a Member of Parliament for Gichugu Constituency and an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. She was Minister of Justice until resigning from that position in April 2009.
Kingwa Kamencu
At only 27 Kingwa Kamencu wants to become Kenya’s next President, people close to the 2nd year student at Oxford University says she is barely a month in the country after landing from UK.
Kingwa Kamencu once attempted to capture the main Student Organisation Of University Of Nairobi(SONU) seat sometime back but she did not get the required number of votes.
At a press conference Sunday, the 27 year old broke down as she explained her reason to join politics
Kingwa Kamencu was born in Nairobi’s Mater Hospital to Hellen Kaigera and Zakay
Kamencu, she grew up in Nairobi mostly but had a short stint in Australia, she later relocated to her rural home in Meru.
She says she did not like her rural home because there was no electricity, water and above all, no fun.
Kingwa Kamencu went to St George’s Primary School and Langata Junior both in Nairobi, she had a short stint in Bishop Lawi Imathiu boarding school in Meru.
She did her BA in History and Literature at the University of Nairobi.
She is turning 28 at the end of this October 2011, she says only a few months ago she realize she’s been spending too much time in school and now want to make the world better.
At the UON the Women Students Welfare Association (WOSWA) awarded her the ‘Young Woman Achiever’ of the year – 2008.
She says she was very touched and humbled
Here are Kenyans who have declared their interest in the presidency. Who will you vote for? OBS! Information courtesy wikipedia and facebook
Paul Muite
Paul Kibugi Muite (born 18 Apr 1945,) is a Kenyan lawyer, politician and a prominent figure in Kenya's struggle to remove the Single party dictatorship, established by the Kenya African National Union in 1982, during the 1990s. He served a Vice Chairman of Ford-Kenya, whilst it was under the tutelage of Oginga Odinga and is the founding chairman of the Safina Party of Kenya. He has served several terms in Kenya's parliament as member for the Kabete Constituency.
George Saitoti
George Saitoti is both Maasai, and Kikuyu. by origin. Ironically, Human Rights Watch accused him of inciting ethnic violence in the Rift Valley Province during the run-up to the 1992 Kenyan general elections, violence that was mainly directed against the Kikuyu.
He studied at Mang'u High School and received his undergraduate education in the U.S. at Brandeis University on a Wien Scholarship. Saitoti obtained a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Warwick in 1972 in the area of algebraic topology.
On August 30, 2002, Saitoti was dismissed as Vice-President by President Daniel arap Moi for disloyalty; Saitoti was also removed from his post as Vice-Chairman of the Kenyan African National Union (KANU). In the December 2002 election, he won the Kajiado North Constituency seat for the NARC party.
On 13 February 2006 Saitoti's resignation as Minister of Education was announced by President Mwai Kibaki in a television address, after accusations that he was involved in the Goldenberg scandal. The Kenyan High Court ruled on 31 July 2006 that Saitoti should not be charged over the Goldenberg scandal. On 15 November 2006 he was reinstated as Education Minister by Kibaki.
In the Cabinet appointed by Kibaki on January 8, 2008, following the controversial December 2007 election, Saitoti was named Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security in the Office of the President. After a power-sharing agreement was reached between Kibaki and Raila Odinga, both of whom claimed victory in the 2007 election, Saitoti retained his post in the grand coalition Cabinet named on April 13, 2008.
Saitoti has expressed his desire to run for President of Kenya in 2012.
Uhuru Kenyatta
Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta (born October 26, 1961) is a Kenyan politician, currently serving as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Finance and MP for Gatundu South Constituency. He is the Chairman of Kenya African National Union (KANU), the former ruling party, which is currently part of the Party of National Unity (PNU). Nominated to Parliament in 2001, he became Minister for Local Government under President Daniel arap Moi and, despite his political inexperience, was favored by President Moi as his successor; Kenyatta ran as KANU's candidate in the December 2002 presidential election, but lost to opposition candidate Mwai Kibaki by a large margin. He subsequently became Leader of the Opposition in Parliament. He backed Kibaki for re-election in the December 2007 presidential election and was named Minister of Local Government by Kibaki in January 2008, before becoming Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade in April 2008 as part of a coalition government. He is the son of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first president (1964–1978). His name, Uhuru, is Swahili for "freedom".
He attended St Mary's School in Nairobi. From there he went on to study political science at Amherst College, USA.
Mutuvi Musyimi
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mutava Musyimi is a Kenyan politician. He belongs to the Party of National Unity and was elected to represent the Gachoka Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya since the Kenyan parliamentary election, 2007.
Mutava Musyimi was born in 1952 to Tabitha Kisilu and veteran politician Stephen Kisilu (both deceased) in Riakanau village, Embu District. He is the third born of eight children. He grew up in a Christian home, and attended Riakanau Primary School from 1959-1965. He later joined the prestigious Kangaru School, Embu in 1969. He attended the University of Nairobi (Kenyatta Campus- which later became Kenyatta University) in 1972 to pursue a Bachelor of Education degree. It was during this time that he felt the call to become a man of the cloth. After much thought, prayer and consulting, he decided to follow this route, though it took him down a different path. He later joined University of London for a Bachelor of Divinity degree and thereafter the Trinity Divinity School, Illinois for a Master of Theology degree. Upon returning to Kenya, he joined the Nairobi Baptist Church as a Pastor from 1979- 1993. He married his wife Nyambura Musyimi on February 4th, 1984 and later had two children; a daughter, Mueni-Nyokabi (25), a lawyer and theology teacher and a son, Syano (23) a PhD candidate.
Charity Ngilu
Charity Kaluki Ngilu (born 1952) is a Kenyan politician. She was Minister of Health from 2003 until 2007 and was appointed as Minister of Water and Irrigation in April 2008.
Ngilu was born in Mbooni, Makueni District in 1952. She was educated at Alliance Girls High School, then worked as a secretary for Central Bank of Kenya, before becoming an entrepreneur. She acted as a director of a plastics extrusion factory.
In Kenya's first ever multiparty elections held in 1992, Charity Ngilu pulled off a big surprise by capturing the Kitui central constituency seat on the Democratic Party ticket.
In the December 1997 general election, she ran for the presidency and along with Wangari Maathai became the first ever female presidential candidates in Kenya. Ngilu then represented the Social Democratic Party of Kenya. She finished fifth.
Later, she joined National Party of Kenya. In the December 2002 general election, her party was part of the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC). The coalition went on to win the elections, and President Mwai Kibaki appointed her as Minister of Health when he named his Cabinet on January 3, 2003. Ngilu was seen as a new school member in the government, as opposed to old school members like John Michuki and President Kibaki.
She was also appointed NARC chairperson. However, she was left stranded after the Liberal Democratic Party left the coalition after the defeat of the Government-sponsored draft constitution, while most of the remaining NARC members founded the new Narc-Kenya party, though NARC is still officially the ruling party. She has been viewed as a flip flopper who could not decide whether she was in the government between 2003 and 2007 or against the government.
On July 31, 2007, Ngilu took Ann Njogu, a protester, to a hospital after Njogu had allegedly been beaten by police. Ngilu was then accused of helping Njogu escape the police, and she was arrested on August 2 before being released on bail. She reported to the headquarters of the Criminal Investigations Department on August 3 as she was ordered, but would not leave her car, saying that she should either be charged or released. Later on the same day the Nairobi High Court ruled that Ngilu's arrest was illegal, and she was allowed to leave. According to Ngilu's lawyer, she was not aiding an escape and Njogu was returned to the police by the hospital a day after she was taken there.
On October 5, 2007, Ngilu announced her support for the Orange Democratic Movement and its presidential candidate, Raila Odinga, in the December 2007 general election; she has compared Odinga to Nelson Mandela. She initially said that she was remaining in the government, despite backing Kibaki's main rival. However, her dismissal from the government by Kibaki was announced on October 6.
Ngilu was re-elected to her seat from Kitui Central in the December 2007 parliamentary election. Kibaki won the presidential election according to official results, but this was disputed by the ODM, and a violent crisis developed. The crisis was eventually resolved with a power-sharing agreement, and in the grand coalition Cabinet named on April 13, 2008 and sworn in on April 17, Ngilu was appointed as Minister of Water and Irrigation.
Martha Karua
Martha Wangari Karua (born 22 September 1957) is a Kenyan politician. She is a Member of Parliament for Gichugu Constituency and an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. She was Minister of Justice until resigning from that position in April 2009.
Kingwa Kamencu
At only 27 Kingwa Kamencu wants to become Kenya’s next President, people close to the 2nd year student at Oxford University says she is barely a month in the country after landing from UK.
Kingwa Kamencu once attempted to capture the main Student Organisation Of University Of Nairobi(SONU) seat sometime back but she did not get the required number of votes.
At a press conference Sunday, the 27 year old broke down as she explained her reason to join politics
Kingwa Kamencu was born in Nairobi’s Mater Hospital to Hellen Kaigera and Zakay
Kamencu, she grew up in Nairobi mostly but had a short stint in Australia, she later relocated to her rural home in Meru.
She says she did not like her rural home because there was no electricity, water and above all, no fun.
Kingwa Kamencu went to St George’s Primary School and Langata Junior both in Nairobi, she had a short stint in Bishop Lawi Imathiu boarding school in Meru.
She did her BA in History and Literature at the University of Nairobi.
She is turning 28 at the end of this October 2011, she says only a few months ago she realize she’s been spending too much time in school and now want to make the world better.
At the UON the Women Students Welfare Association (WOSWA) awarded her the ‘Young Woman Achiever’ of the year – 2008.
She says she was very touched and humbled
is today asking the undecided and deluded voters in his twitter page