The Kenya African National Union (KANU) is a Kenyan political party that ruled for nearly 40 years after Kenya's independence from British colonial rule in 1963 until its electoral loss in 2002. It was known as Kenya African Union (KAU) from 1944 but due to pressure from the colonial government,KAU changed its name to Kenya African Study Union (KASU) mainly because all political parties were banned in 1939 following the start of the Second World War. In 1946 KASU rebranded itself into KAU following the resignation of Harry Thuku as president due to internal differences between the moderates who wanted peaceful negotiations and the militants who wanted to use force,the latter forming the Aanake a forty,which later became the Mau Mau. His post was then occupied by James Gichuru,who stepped down for Jomo Kenyatta in 1947 as president of KAU. The KAU was banned by the colonial government from 1952 to 1960. It was re-established by James Gichuru in 1960 and renamed KANU on 14 May 1960 after a merger with Tom Mboya's Kenya Independence Movement.
Nicholas Kipyator Kiprono arap Biwott was a Kenyan businessman,politician,and philanthropist. Biwott served as a civil servant,Member of Parliament and government minister,during which time he held eight senior ministerial positions during the presidency of Daniel arap Moi.
Meru County is one of the 47 counties of Kenya. It borders Isiolo County to the north,Tharaka-Nithi County to the east,Nyeri County to the southwest and Laikipia County to the west. The home of the Meru people,Meru County has a population of 1.55 million people.
Christopher Ndarathi Murungaru is a former Kenyan politician,a former Member of Parliament for Kieni Constituency in Nyeri District and a former Minister of Transport.
The Meru or Amîîrú are a Bantu ethnic group that inhabit the Meru region of Kenya. The region is situated on the fertile lands of the north and eastern slopes of Mount Kenya in the former Eastern Province.
James Aggrey Bob Orengo is a Kenyan lawyer,a well known human rights activist and politician who is the current governor for Siaya County. He is also one of the few Kenyan lawyers who have attained the professional grade of Senior counsel in the legal field,a title that he earned under former president Mwai Kibaki.
John Githongo is a former Kenyan journalist who investigated bribery and fraud in his home country (Kenya) and later,under the presidency of Mwai Kibaki,took on an official governmental position to fight corruption. In 2005 he left that position,later accusing top ministers of large-scale fraud. In the Anglo-leasing corruption which he blew the lid over,fraudulent deliveries of government military and forensic laboratory equipment were allegedly ordered,"delivered" and the payment completed in the current president- Uhuru Kenyatta's tenure. The story of his fight against corruption is told in Michela Wrong's book It's Our Turn to Eat:The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower.
Kiraitu Murungi is a Commissioner at the Kenya Law Reform Commission and the former governor of Meru County in Kenya. He is a former long-serving member of parliament for South Imenti constituency (1992-2013),former cabinet minister,and former senator for Meru County.
George Musengi Saitoti,E.G.H. was a Kenyan politician,businessman and American- and British-trained economist,mathematician and development policy thinker.
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.
Majimbo is a Swahili term that is commonly used in Kenya to refer to the idea of political devolution of power to the country's regions. It is alleged by critics,including former vice-president Oginga Odinga in his book Not Yet Uhuru,to have been coined by European settlers in Kenya's White Highlands region,around the time of independence in 1963,who preferred to retain an autonomous,ethnically based governance over the region. It has also been alleged,by some of its critics,that majimbo is a pretext for the type of communal violence that has plagued Kenya's elections especially since the return of multiparty politics. In his autobiography Illusions of Power,G.G Kariuki,a long serving KANU Member of Parliament,goes as far as to allege the existence of a plot to instigate communal violence in Kenya's independence elections by supporters of a Majimbo system of government.
Jamleck Irungu Kamau,also known as "Kabisa Kabisa",was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 2007 to 2017 representing Kigumo Constituency,a sub-county in Murang'a County,Central Kenya. He is the son of Kamau Muchunu from Kigumo.
Dr Mwiria Valerian Kilemi is a Kenyan politician and scholar. He belongs to the Maendeleo Chap Chap party headed by Machakos Governor Alfred Mutua and was elected to represent the Tigania West Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya in the 2007 Kenyan parliamentary election.
Eugene Ludovic Wamalwa is a Kenyan politician who was the former Cabinet Secretary of the Ministry of Defense. Prior to that before 29 September 2021,he was Cabinet Secretary of Devolution. He is also a former minister for Justice. He also served as Minister for Water and Irrigation. He belongs to the Jubilee Party and was elected to represent the Saboti Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya since the 2007 Kenyan parliamentary election.
Isaac Kiprono Ruto is a Kenyan politician. He is the Chama Cha Mashinani Party leader. He was elected the first governor of Bomet County in 2013 Kenyan general elections. He hails from Tumoi,Sigor in Chepalungu constituency and studied Political Science at the University of Nairobi. He is also a former chairman of the Council of Governors in Kenya.
Henry Kiprono Kosgey is a Kenyan politician who was a member of parliament for Tinderet Constituency and was a Minister for Industrialization. He was also the Chairman of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM);The longest serving Mp for Tinderet who is also a renowned large scale owner of tea farms.
Aaron Gitonga RingeraE.B.S. is a Kenyan lawyer who served as a judge and as the former director of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC). He was born in Githongo,Meru.
Peter Kagwanja is a Kenyan intellectual,adviser,reform strategist and policy thinker on governance,security and African affairs. From the early 1990s,Kagwanja was associated with Kenya's pro-democracy movement through his research and writings in the media,and was one of the founders of the University Academic Staff Union (UASU). As an emigre in South Africa (2003-2008),he was in the team of experts that provided technical backing to the intense policy processes that led to the creation of the African Union (AU) and its peace and security architecture. When Kenya's opposition ascended to power,Kagwanja became part of the technical team that re-engineered and realigned the country's foreign policy and strategy to the challenges of the 21st century. He became government adviser on the post-2008 reform agenda and strategy;managed its successful campaign for the New Constitution of Kenya and provided strategic thinking towards the transition to the post-Kibaki order. Kagwanja is a public intellectual who has authored many articles and books,including Kenya's Uncertain Democracy:The Electoral Crisis of 2008London:Routledge (2010).
Willy Munyoki Mutunga is a Kenyan lawyer,intellectual,reform activist,and was the Commonwealth Special Envoy to the Maldives. He is also an active member of the Justice Leadership Group. He is the retired Chief Justice of Kenya and President of the Supreme Court of Kenya.
Anne Mumbi Waiguru,EGH,is the second Governor of Kirinyaga County in Kenya,who has been in office since 22 August 2017. She was re-elected to office as Governor for her second 5 year term in the elections that were held on 9th August 2022. Previously,she served as the first Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Devolution and Planning. She was nominated by H.E. President Uhuru Kenyatta to the position on 25 April 2013. She is behind the establishment of Huduma Centres,places where Kenyan citizens can access government services more efficiently at their respective counties. as well as the 30% procurement rule,which accords at least 30 per cent of all supply contracts to the government to the youth,persons with disability and women.
