Abdulaziz Ali Farah is a Kenyan politician and a member of the 11th Kenyan parliament elected from Mandera East Constituency on the ticket of United Republican Party (URP) and with support of Jubilee Coalition in 2013. In the parliament, he served on the Environment & Natural Resources committee. Farah is a Murulle tribesman and received the endorsement of the council of elders of his clan for his first term but was unable to secure the endorsement for a second term in 2017 ending his parliamentary career. He graduated from Kenyatta University in 1995. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Lamu County is a county in Kenya located along the North Coast of the country and is one of the six Coastal Counties in Kenya. Its capital is the town of Lamu. It borders Tana River County to the southwest, Garissa County to the north, Somalia to the northeast, and the Indian Ocean to the South.
Murule is a sub-clan of the Hawiye and the larger Samaale clan. It is one of the major Somali clans and has produced many prominent historical Somali figures.
Marsabit County is a county in Kenya, covering a surface area of 66,923.1 square kilometres. Marsabit is the second largest county by size in Kenya after Turkana county which has an area of 71,597.8 km2. Its capital is Marsabit and its largest town is Moyale. According to the 2019 census, the county has a population of 459,785. It is bordered to the North by Ethiopia, to the West by Turkana County to the South by Samburu County and Isiolo County, and to the East by Wajir County.
Mandera County is one of the counties in Kenya that has its capital and largest town as Mandera. The county is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the east and Wajir County to the southwest. According to the 2019 census, the county has a population of 1,200,890 and an area of 25,939.8 square kilometres (10,015.4 sq mi). The main economic activity in the county is pastoralism, while others include cross-border trade with Ethiopia, artisanal mining, beekeeping, and agriculture along the Dawa River.
Abdirahman Ali Hassan is a Kenyan politician. He served in the government of Kenya as assistant minister for trade and industry from 2005 to 2007. A member of the Orange Democratic Movement, He was elected to represent the Wajir South Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya in the Kenyan 2002 parliamentary election. He was also elected to the senate of Kenya in 2013, representing Wajir county, and becoming deputy minority leader in the senate.
Abdikadir Hussein Mohamed is a Kenyan politician. As a member of Safina, Mohamed was elected to represent the Mandera Central Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya in the 2007 Kenyan parliamentary election, defeating the incumbent Billow Kerrow.
Adan Abdulla Mohammed is a prominent Kenyan banker and entrepreneur. He previously served as the managing director of Barclays Bank in East and West Africa. In 2013, he was sworn in as the Cabinet Secretary for Industrialization of Kenya.
Orders, decorations, and medals of Kenya are awarded by the President of Kenya "in recognition of outstanding or distinguished services rendered to the nation in various capacities and responsibilities". Awards are made by the president upon the advice of a National Honours and Awards Committee in the president's office. Individuals are nominated for awards by district committees, government ministries, religious organisations, non-governmental organisations, individuals and others. The Chief of the Order of the Golden Heart is the highest honour awarded by the Kenyan government.
Abbas Abdullahi Sheikh Siraji was a Somali politician who briefly served as the Minister of Public Works and Reconstruction until he was shot dead in Mogadishu in 2017.
Ibrahim Ali Roba, commonly known as Ali Roba is the first governor of Mandera County. He was elected on March 4, 2013 as the governor of Mandera on a United Republic Party (URP) ticket, a coalition member of Jubilee Party of Kenya. He was re-elected as governor for a second and final term on August 8, 2017.
Banissa is a constituency in Kenya. It is one of six constituencies in Mandera County.
Fatuma Gedi is a Kenyan politician from Wajir town. A former member of the National Assembly from Wajir county. The former Women representative for Wajir county. In 2017 she won the seat through Party for development and reform, under the reign of the fourth president of the Republic of Kenya, Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta.
Billow Kerrow is a Kenyan politician from Mandera County. He served as a Member of Parliament for Mandera Central Constituency from 2002 to 2007 and as the first senator from Mandera County from 2013 to 2017. Kerrow also served as KANU's shadow finance minister in the ninth parliament, and as the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget in the Senate. In February 2016, Kerrow replaced Senator Kipchumba Murkomen as a member of the Pan-African Parliament. In 2017, Billow Kerrow decided to retire from politics after 15 years saying it is "an appropriate time to re-evaluate and move on".
Shaaban Ali Isaack is a Kenyan politician. He hails from the Murule Clan of the Jidle Hawiye clan of the Somalis
Hon. Mohamed, Mohamed Ali, popularly known as Moha Jicho Pevu, is a Kenyan politician, media personality and anchor.
Ali Sharif Athman is a Kenyan politician and a member of the 11th parliament of Kenya elected from Lamu East on the ticket of United Democratic Forum Party (UDF) and with support of Amani Coalition in 2013.
Abass Sheikh Mohamed is a Kenyan politician currently serving as a senator for the Wajir County elected on the ticket of United Democratic Movement (UDM) in 2022. He was previously a member of the 11th parliament of Kenya from Wajir East Constituency in Wajir County. He was elected on the ticket of the United Republican Party (URP) with the support of Jubilee Coalition in 2013.
Adan Mohamed Nooru is a Kenyan politician and member of the Keyan and East African Legislative Assembly. He was first elected to the parliament from Mandera North Constituency during the one- party system in Kenya in 1983 and served as an assistant minister under the Kenya African National Union (KANU) government.
Mohamed Huka Adan was a Kenyan politician and a member of the 11th parliament of Kenya elected from Mandera South Constituency on the ticket of United Republican Party (URP) and with the support of Jubilee Coalition. In the parliament, he served on the house committee on Education, Research and Technology and spoke 63 times in the parliament during the 11th assembly. He died in March 2019 from an undisclosed illness.
Joseph Samal Lomwa is a Kenyan politician and a member of the 11th Kenyan parliament elected from Isiolo North Constituency on the ticket of United Republican Party (URP) in 2013. He succeeded Mohammed Kuti of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) and Narc-K party. In the parliament, Lomwa served on Public Works, Roads & Transport committee. He did not run for reelection in 2017 as he failed to secure the endorsement of his clan's council of elders.