Political career
She was elected to the National Assembly as a women's representative for Muranga County in 2013 with 96.6% of the vote. She was a member of the National Alliance party. In the 2017 general election,she was re-elected,now as a member of the Jubilee Party. The Jubilee party was formed in 2016 as a successor to the Jubilee Alliance,a coalition of several political parties including Chege's National Alliance party. [5] In her first term in parliament she was chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Education,Research &Technology and a member of the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee. Since 2017 she has served as chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Health. [6] [7]
In 2019 she sponsored the Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service Bill which commercialised blood transfusions and created a new national body to coordinate blood donations nationally. This move was criticised by the Kenya National Union of Medical Laboratory Officers. [8] She also sponsored the Breastfeeding Mothers Bill that would require employers to provide facilities and breaks for employees who were breastfeeding. [9] On September 2024,she sponsored the Horticultural Crops Authority Bill 2024 that seeked to introduce licensing,regulation,post harvest handling and marketing by a Horticultural Crops Authority. The bill was controversial and has since not been passed to law [10] [11] .
She was succeeded by Beatrice Njeri Maina in the 2022 Kenyan General elections for the Murang'a Women Rep position. [12] She had declared an interest in becoming the running-mate for Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto in the 2022 presidential election. [13] She then supported Raila Odinga.
In May 2023,she pledged allegiance to President William Ruto. [14] for disloyalty,former president Uhuru Kenyatta expelled her from the Jubilee party. [15]
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