Saturday, October 5, 2024
Home FEATURED 11 Most powerful women in Government

11 Most powerful women in Government

0
11 Most powerful women in Government
Charity Ngilu, Gorvenor Kitui County

B. Senators

1.Margaret Kamar

11 Most powerful women in Government

Margaret Jepkoech Kamar is an accomplished scientist and academician. She studied in the United States of America and Canada after which she worked at UNEP for 10 years before joining Moi University as a tutorial fellow and rising to the rank of a senior lecturer. From 1997 to 2002, Prof Kamar was the principal of Moi University’s Chepkoilel Campus after which she was appointed the University’s Deputy Vice Chancellor in charge of Research and Extension, a position she held between 2002 and 2006.

Kamar is one of the wives of the former powerful minister in President daniel Arap Moi’s government kicked her political career in 2006 when she was nominated to the East African Legislative Assembly. She successfully ran for the Eldoret East parliamentary seat in 2007. While in parliament, she served as assistant minister for Environment and Natural resources and later as minister for Higher Education, Science and technology.

Co-Op post

2. Susan Kihika

Susan Kihika, Senator Nakuru County
Susan Kihika, Senator Nakuru County

Susan Kihika is the daughter of the maverick politician, Kihika Kimani, a notable political figure in both President Jomo Kenyatta and President Daniel Arap Moi’s governments and who went on to serve as Mp in 3 different constituencies. Though his dream of bequeathing political seats to two of his eight wives and two sons never came to pass, his daughter emphatically won the Nakuru senatorial seat in 2017.

The beautiful senator is a political science and law graduate. She unsuccessfully vied for a parliamentary sea in 2013 but went on to become the speaker of the Nakuru County Assembly.

3. Fatuma Dullo

11 Most powerful women in GovernmentFatuma Dullo is the first elected woman senator in thein the conservative pastoral county.
She has previously worked as an administrator in Lamu County Council and served as a commissioner of the Kenya Human Rights Commission between 2007 and 2012.

NCBA

She was nominated to the Senate since 2013 by the Jubilee affiliated United Republican Party (URP).

NEXT PAGE…

-->
error: Content is protected !!