The Abagusii are a Bantu ethnic group and nation indigenous to Kisii and Nyamira counties of former Nyanza,as well as parts of Kericho and Bomet counties of the former Rift Valley province of Kenya.
Kisii is a municipality and urban centre in south-western Kenya and the capital city of Kisii County. Kisii Town also serves as a major urban and commercial centre in the Gusii Highlands—Kisii and Nyamira counties—and the South Nyanza region and is the second largest town in formerly greater Nyanza after Kisumu City. Kisii municipality sits right at the centre of the western Kenya tourist circuit that includes the Tabaka Soapstone Carvings,Maasai Mara,Ruma National Park and part of the Lake Victoria Basin.
Simeon Nyachae was a Kenyan politician,government minister,and businessman from Kisii County.
Nyamira County is a county in the former Nyanza Province of Kenya. Formally a district,Nyamira was hived off Kisii District in 1989,and it shares common boundaries with what was known as Nyamira District. The main cash crops grown are bananas and tea. The county has a population of 605,576. Its capital and largest town is Nyamira,with an urban population of around 41,668 The county is also referred to as North Kisii.
George Moseti Anyona (1945–2003) was a politician from Kenya.
Kisii School is a public high school for boys in Kisii,Kenya,established in 1934.
Dr. Zachary T. Onyonka (1939–1996) was a Kenyan politician who served his country as a cabinet minister from 1969 to 1996 in various ministries. He served in Education,Economic Planning &Development and Trade and Foreign Affairs,Planning and National Development. Well Known within the Kisii community,he was always at loggerheads with then Nyaribari Chache MP Simeon Nyachae until he died. Onyonka was elected to parliament in the 1969 elections from Kitutu West Constituency when he trounced the first cabinet minister from Kisii,Lawrence Sagini Ndemo. He was the youngest MP at about 27 years. He retained his parliamentary seat until his death. He was famous for leading an anti-Nyachae crusade in Kisii after he was released from Kodiaga prison in Kisumu. He had been arrested and charged with murder following a fatal shooting incident involving his bodyguards and a voter in then Kitutu West constituency campaigns. Ouru Ndege was shot dead after he attempted to attack Dr. Onyonka with a knife during the stormy 1983 campaigns along Kisii-Migori road junction. His rival,John Bosco Mboga had just addressed his supporters in the area and when Onyonka,who was a cabinet minister in President Moi's government arrived,Ndege attempted to stab him with a sword leading to the minister's bodyguards shooting him to death. Onyonka and his guards did not have a car at the time of the shooting. He was rescued by a matatu driver,Joseph Moya Nyambariga,from Botoro area in Bomorenda,Bonchari. He drove the sieged minister in his matatu,christened Bolingo Na Ngai Express to safety at Suneka Chief's camp. He was arrested soon after and locked up in Kisumu awaiting trial on murder charges. The prosecution was unable to prove the case against him and in 1984,Onyonka was set free. He had won the hotly contested election in absentia and after two years in the cold,Moi appointed him Minister for Foreign Affairs. Before the 1988 elections,Onyonka led a group of politicians from Kisii dubbed the Four Os. This stands for Onyonka,Obure Omanga and Onyancha to launch the famous "Kebirigo Declaration" in which Nyachae was denounced. The Kebirigo declaration was a strong political ideology that stood for independence of each constituency in Kisii against manipulation from Nyachae. At that time,it had become increasingly evident that Nyachae who was a powerful civil servant was planning to plunge into active politics. Onyonka alleged that Nyachae had embarked on a series of secret campaigns,recruiting candidates against incumbent MPs so that he could make it to parliament with a clean slate of leaders,if he was cleared by KANU to run for elective seat. The Kebirigo declaration was therefore meant to assert the authority and legitimacy of each member of parliament from Kisii and also sought to reject the political dominion from Nyaribari,Nyachae's home constituency. After Onyonka's death in 1996,he was succeeded by Jimmy Nuru Angwenyi as MP for Kitutu Chache. His son Richard Momoima Onyonka,later dethroned Angwenyi to become the area MP. After the 2013 electoral review,Kitutu Chache was divided into two constituencies,North and South (Mosocho).
Richard Momoima is a Kenyan senator. He belonged to the People's Democratic Party and was elected to represent the Kitutu Chache Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya since the 2007 Kenyan parliamentary election. He is now a Ford Kenya Party member and retained his seat through this seat in the August 2017 elections.
Robert Onsare Monda is the Deputy Governor of Kisii County,Kenya. Monda served as the Member of Parliament for Nyaribari Chache after defeating veteran politician Simeon Nyachae,but his bid to maintain his seat for the second term was unsuccessful. He lost to ODM's Chris Bichage in 2013. After 10 years out of power,Monda came back to the political scene after he was named as Simba Arati's running mate for the Kisii County gubernatorial race in 2022. The two won and were sworn in August 2022.
Nyaribare Chache is an electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of nine constituencies in Kisii County. The constituency was established for the 1988 elections from the larger Nyaribari Constituency to form two constituencies of Nyaribari Chache and Masaba.
James Nyamweya was a Kenyan politician who served in ministerial,parastatal,and political party leadership positions in both the Kenyatta and Moi governments from 1965 to 1995. He was Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs,Assistant Minister in the Office of the President,Minister of State in charge of External Affairs Foreign Minister,Minister of State in charge of Provincial Administration,Leader of Government Business in Parliament,Minister for Works,Minister for Power and Communication,Minister for Labour,Chairman Electoral Boundaries Commission,and National Vice Chairman of the Democratic Party.
Kisii County is a county in the former Nyanza Province in southwestern Kenya. Its capital and largest town is Kisii. The county has a population of 1,266,860 people. It borders Nyamira County to the North East,Narok County to the South,and Homa bay and Migori Counties to the West. The county covers an area of 1,318 km2.
The Counties of Kenya are geographical units created by the 2010 Constitution of Kenya as the new units of devolved government. They replaced the previous provincial system. The establishment and executive powers of the counties is provided in Chapter Eleven of the Constitution on devolved government,the Constitution's Fourth Schedule and any other legislation passed by the Senate of Kenya concerning counties. The counties are also single-member constituencies which elect members of the Senate,and special woman members to the National Assembly.
Local elections were held in Kisii to elect a Governor and County Assembly on March 4,2013. Under the new constitution,which was passed in a 2010 referendum,the 2013 general elections were the first in which Governors and members of the County Assemblies for the newly created counties were elected. They will also be the first general elections run by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission(IEBC) which has released the official list of candidates.
John Krop Lonyang'apuo is a Kenyan politician. He was the former Permanent Secretary for Ministry of Industrialization (2008–2010),under the Leadership of President Mwai Kibaki. He is an active member and party leader of Kenya Union Party at the National Level. He served as the governor of West Pokot county from 2017 to 2022 after serving as the Senator from 2013 to 2017.
Kitutu Chache North is a constituency in Kenya. It is one of nine constituencies in Kisii County.
Bomachoge Chache is a constituency in Kenya.
Nyagarama,formally known as John Obiero Nyagarama,was a Kenyan politician. He was the first Governor of Nyamira County,deputised by Amos Nyaribo. He was a member of the Orange Democratic Movement and was elected in March 2013,subsequently retaining his seat for a second term beginning August 2017.
Githinji Gitahi is a Kenyan medical doctor who serves as the Global Chief Executive Officer of Amref Health Africa as well a former co-chair of the UHC2030 Steering Committee. In July 2021,he was appointed as a Commissioner in the Africa COVID-19 Commission.
