Jaramogi Ajuma Oginga Odinga was a Kenyan politician who became a prominent figure in Kenya's struggle for independence. He served as Kenya's first vice-president,and thereafter as opposition leader. Odinga's son Raila Odinga is a former prime minister,and another son,Oburu Odinga,is a former assistant minister in the Ministry of Finance.
Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka is a Kenyan politician who was the tenth Vice-President of Kenya from 2008 to 2013. Musyoka served in the government under the late President Daniel arap Moi as the Secretary of Kenya African National Union party (1980-1988),Assistant Minister for Works (1986-1988),Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly (1988-1992),Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1993 until 1998,Minister of Education (1998-2001);and subsequently,under the late President Mwai Kibaki,he was Minister of Foreign Affairs again from 2003 to 2004,then Minister of the Environment from 2004 to 2005. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2007 presidential election,after which he was appointed vice-president by Kibaki in January 2008.
The Liberal Democratic Party was a political party in Kenya. It was established by Raila Odinga and members of the National Rainbow Coalition in 2002.
Forum for the Restoration of Democracy–Kenya (FORD–Kenya) is a Kenyan political party. The party has sat in the government of Kenya once,under the National Rainbow Coalition,from 2003 to 2007,having ended forty years of one party rule. In April 2022,the party joined the Kenya Kwanza coalition for the August 2022 elections,and is headed by Moses Wetangula,the current speaker of the National Assembly of Kenya. The party tends to be more popular among the Luhya people.
William Kipchirchir Samoei Arap Ruto is a Kenyan politician who is the fifth and current president of Kenya since 13 September 2022. Prior to becoming president,he served as the first elected deputy president of Kenya from 2013 to 2022. He previously served in three cabinet portfolios as the Minister for Home Affairs,the Minister of Agriculture and as Minister for Higher Education.
Raila Amolo Odinga is a Kenyan politician who served as the Prime Minister of Kenya from 2008 to 2013. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Langata Constituency from 1992 to 2013 and has been the Leader of Opposition in Kenya since 2013. He is the leader of Azimio la Umoja–One Kenya Coalition Party.
The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) is a centre-left political party in Kenya. It is the successor of a grassroots people's movement that was formed during the 2005 Kenyan constitutional referendum campaign. This movement separated in August 2007 into the Orange Democratic Movement Party of Kenya and the Wiper Democratic Movement –Kenya.
Siaya County is one of the counties in the former Nyanza Province in western Kenya. It is bordered by Busia County to the north,Kakamega County,and Vihiga County to the northeast and Kisumu County to the southeast. It shares a water border with Homa Bay County which is located south of Siaya County. The total area of the county is approximately 2,496.1 km2. The county lies between latitude 0°26' to 0°18' north and longitude 33°58' east and 34°33' west. Siaya has been split up into six new districts (sub-counties). Under the 2010 Constitution,the role of the districts is still unclear as much of the administrative authority was transferred to the county. The capital is Siaya,town,although the largest town is Bondo.
Martha Wangari Karua is a Kenyan politician. She is a former long-standing member of parliament for Gichugu Constituency and an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. She was Minister for Justice until resigning from that position in April 2009. She has consistently fought for the protection of women's rights and improvements to the democratic process.
The Wiper Democratic Movement–Kenya (WDM-K),formerly Orange Democratic Movement–Kenya (ODM–Kenya),is a political party in Kenya,which originated as a result of the 2005 Kenyan constitutional referendum. The party tends to be more popular among the Kamba people. It is headed by Kalonzo Musyoka,who ran for president in 2007 and served as the vice-president in the Grand Coalition of Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga. He is now a member of the main opposition Azimio La Umoja One Kenya Party.
Oburu Ng'ong'a Oginga is a Kenyan politician who is currently serving as senator for Siaya County,having been elected in the elections of August 2022. He is an immediate former member for the East African Legislative Assembly,based in Arusha Tanzania. He is the former assistant minister for finance in the 2008 Grand Coalition government and a former Member of the Kenyan Parliament.
General elections were held in Kenya on 27 December 2007. Voters elected the President,and members of the National Assembly. They coincided with the 2007 Kenyan local elections.
Moses Masika Wetang'ula,is the current Speaker of the National Assembly of Kenya,and leader of the FORD-Kenya,one of the most popular political parties in Western Kenya. He served as Kenya's Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2008 to 2010 and from 2011 to 2012,and as Minister for Trade from 2012 to 2013.
Cyrus Shakhalaga Khwa Jirongo,popularly Cyrus Jirongo,is a politician and a former Minister for Rural Development between 12 March 2002 to 27 December 2002 in the Moi administration. He previously served as former Member of Parliament for Lugari Constituency between 1997 and 2002 and between 2007 and 2013.
Kipkalya Kiprono Kones was a Kenyan politician who served as a minister during the 1990s and briefly as Minister of Roads in 2008. He was a member of the National Assembly of Kenya from 1988 to 2008.
Gideon Musyoka Ndambuki is a Kenyan politician. He has been the Kaiti Constituency MP since 1997 when the constituency was established. He was also a minister between 1998 and 2002. At the 1997 and 2002 elections he won the seat on a KANU party ticket,but switched to the Orange Democratic Movement-Kenya at the 2007 Kenyan parliamentary election. He unsuccessfully vied for the Makueni County Senate seat during Wiper Democratic Party nominations in the run-up to the 2013 General Elections in Kenya. Educated in the US,he was an employee of the Commercial Bank of Africa in the 1980s,and more controversially,Managing Director of Trade Bank between 1986 and its collapse in 1993.
The Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) was a coalition of multiple political parties,built around the triumvirate of Raila Odinga,Kalonzo Musyoka,and Moses Wetangula,to contest the 2013 Kenyan general election. The members of the coalition are the Orange Democratic Movement,the Wiper Democratic Movement,FORD–Kenya,Kenya Social Congress,KADU–Asili,the Peoples Democratic Party,the Mkenya Solidarity Movement,Chama Cha Uzalendo,the Muungano Party,the United Democratic Movement,Chama Cha Mwananchi,and the Federal Party of Kenya Following the hotly-contested elections that saw the Jubilee Alliance win,CORD filed a petition contesting the results. The Supreme Court rejected CORD's petition and declared the Jubilee candidate Uhuru Kenyatta president-elect.
The National Super Alliance,known by the abbreviation NASA,was a Kenyan political coalition of opposition centre-left parties that was formed in January 2017. The coalition was created to oppose President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto in the 2017 general elections. Raila Odinga,Musalia Mudavadi,Kalonzo Musyoka,Moses Wetangula and Isaac Ruto were the co-principals of the coalition.
John Keen was a Kenyan politician. He served as an assistant minister for agriculture and member of parliament (MP) for Kajiado North Constituency from 1969 to 1979. In 1991 together with Mwai Kibaki,he founded the Democratic Party,for which he served as secretary general. He carved a reputation as a defender of the Maasai community's land rights.
Azimio la Umoja–One Kenya Coalition Party,popularly referred to as Azimio la Umoja,or simply Azimio,is a Kenyan political alliance and party headed by Raila Odinga. It is composed of the Orange Democratic Movement,the Jubilee Party,NARC–Kenya,KANU,and other parties. Former president Uhuru Kenyatta is the party's patron. The alliance fielded Odinga as its presidential candidate and Martha Karua as its deputy presidential candidate in the 2022 Kenyan election,which they lost.
