Nairobi Senator and former Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Secretary General Edwin Sifuna is one of the most outspoken politicians in the country.
A lawyer by profession, Sifuna has become a key figure for ODM and is currently one of the public faces of ODM during politically charged moments.
Away from politics, Edwin Sifuna is a husband and a father. He is married to Didi Wamukoya Watenya, an environmental lawyer who has managed to stay away from politics despite growing up in a political family.
Didi is the daughter of the former Member of Parliament for the Matungu constituency and the former Minister of Lands, Joseph Wamukoya.
She grew up in Loresho and holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Master of Environmental Law, both from the University of Nairobi. She also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law.
She is a trained wildlife crime investigator having undergone training at Kenya Wildlife Service Law Enforcement Academy and the International Law Enforcement Academy.
She has previously held several roles, including as the Head of Prosecution at the Kenya Wildlife Service for 7 years.
Currently, she serves as the Wildlife Law Enforcement Manager at African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), a journey that began in 2015 when she set out to establish a new unit focused on improving wildlife law enforcement.
The Wildlife Trafficking Law Enforcement Unit is tasked with implementing the organization’s action plan for bolstering wildlife law enforcement efforts across the continent. It also serves as the technical lead for all AWF efforts aimed at halting illegal trafficking of wildlife products.
As part of this work, Didi has helped train judicial officers, prosecutors, investigators and wildlife managers through a series of national and regional workshops
She has co-authored a Book on Natural Resources and Environmental Justice in Kenya (Muigua K., Wamukoya D., Kariuki F., Natural Resources and Environmental Justice in Kenya (Glenwood Publishers Ltd, 2015)).
Didi is also an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, having been admitted to the bar in 2007.
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