Janet Ong'era

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Janet Ong'era
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Janet Ong'era
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Janet Ong'era [2] is the immediate former Kisii County Woman Member of the National Assembly [3] (2017-2022) in the Republic of Kenya. She is the Chairperson of the Eastern Africa Region [4] at the Pan African Parliament. [1]

She is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya and the Managing Partner in the law firm Ongera and Company.

From the year 2013 - 2017 Janet Ong'era was nominated by her Party The Orange Democratic Movement to serve as a Senator in the 11th Parliament. At the senate she was the Minority Deputy Whip and a member of The Kenyan Delegation to the Pan African Parliament

Janet Ong'era served as the Executive Director of the Orange Democratic Movement and during her tenure she successfully conducted party primaries of which her Political Party Orange Democratic Movement [5] won 95 Parliamentary and 3380 civics seats in 2007 General Elections and won 118 Parliamentary seats and 367 members of the County Assembly in 2013 General Elections. Janet Onge'ra was also the director of the two Kenyan Constitution referendums conducted in 2005 [6] and 2010, [7] and both polls were won by her team.

Janet Ong'era is the Founder and Patron of Kisii County Women Agribusiness Empowerment (KCWAES), [8] a savings and credit cooperative society that empowers women to grow and transform their economic status. She has a number of initiatives that are aimed at empowering the Kisii County [9] Society.

Hon Janet Ong’era is also a life member of the following organizations:

Prior Experience:

Personal Data

Hon. Janet Ong’era was born on 5 July 1965 to the late Mama Peripetua Nyang’ate Ong’era and the late Mzee William Ong’era. Her mother was a vegetable vendor in Kisii Municipal Market and her father a Prisons officer. Janet grew up in poverty but learnt at a tender age that humility and daring to dream beyond your environmental horizon could make one scale the heights.

Hon. Ong’era attended Nubia Primary School in Kisii County and Bernard Estate Primary School, where she excelled and joined Precious Blood Riruta Secondary School [18] for O level and Moi Girls High School, Eldoret for her A-levels. She holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree from the University of Nairobi [19] and a Diploma in Laws from the Kenya School of Law. [20]

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