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Juja MP-elect George Ndungu Koimburi. [Courtesy]
Many thought George Ndungu Koimburi was foolhardy when he decided to run in the Juja parliamentary byelection on the little-known People Empowerment Party ticket in President Uhuru Kenyatta s political backyard.
The party is associated with President Uhuru Kenyatta s rebel MP in the neighbouring Gatundu South, Moses Kuria.
A former chairman of the Kiambu County Liquor Board, the MP-elect did not have it easy. At one point, he went into hiding from DCI sleuths who were reportedly looking for him over questionable academic papers.
No stranger to politics, the soft-spoken man s landslide victory in the Juja parliamentary by-election on Tuesday affirmed his popularity in the president s backyard having tried his luck in 2017 (on Farmers’ Party ticket) when he lost to the late Francis Waititu (Wakapee).
By
Eric Wanjohi |
March 15th 2021 at 21:21:54 GMT +0300
Former Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu’s son will possibly spend a few days in jail after his father refused to bail him out.
Brian Ndungú (
pictured) was fined Sh30,000 or spend three months in jail for drunk driving.
The Strathmore University law student on Monday pleaded guilty to driving a probox vehicle along Muindi Mbingu Street in Nairobi’s Central Business District in the wee hours of the morning while intoxicated.
Ndung u pleaded for leniency before Nairobi Senior Principal Magistrate Esther Kimilu claiming he is a first time offender and he will not repeat the misdemeanor.