Former US-Based Lawyer Susan Kihika Named Senate Majority Chief Whip
Former US-based lawyer Susan Kihika has been appointed as the Majority Chief Whip in the Kenyan Senate. Kihika, the newly elected Nakuru County Senator on a Jubilee Party ticket, will take the crucial role following a nod by the President Uhuru's party.
Jubilee Party won the majority seats in both the Senate and in the National Assembly, and has taken the majority of the seats in both houses including the highly sought Speaker position.
The Chief Whip usually has a mandate to administer the whipping system that ensures that members of the party attend and vote in Parliament as the party leadership desires. Kihika will therefore be key in driving President Uhuru's and Jubilee government's legislative agenda in the senate for the next five years.
Upon his election, new Senate Speaker Ken Lusaka recognized Kihika as the majority Chief Whip.
Kihika, who practiced law in Dallas, Texas in the United States, returned to Kenya in 2012 and was immediately elected as the Nakuru County Assembly Speaker in 2013, a position she held until her election to the senate in the August 8th, 2017 general elections.
Comments (7)
Great choice.Smart,learned and hardworking woman.Congratulations!
Kograts miss kihika I personally campaigned for yoo n am happy to see you having won coz we need yr smartness in our politics but please as we told u don't b swollen by the greed n power which comes with yr seat.If u were still in USA could u have come this far,sometimes many folks in diaspora r stuck there fearing if they can come back n bring change instead of getting stuck paying bills all around the year n u know u have something beta u can come n give back to Kenyans like Susan.Hi guys it's good to expand our thinking???Kograts kihika plus many who have dared to come back.Last time I had a choma party at my small farm in tigoni about 26 returnee diaspora from USA U.K. Europe showed up n we had good times n everybody is doing beta.
Hahah....saw a chance to make it about yourself..plus maoungo kk...kama kawaida. She paid bills while getting her education, she worked and continued to pay bills, among them a mortgage house which she'd not finished paying but sold off at crazy profit...paid her mortgage balance and pocketed hundreds of dollars. It's only a fool who never understands such things but takes a line and runs away with it to justify his not-making-it in America...and his deportation ....while singing about his (1/8th) inherited land from his poor parents.
Misery is made of this! Suck it up!
Ken Lusaka do not leave the 10 expensive wheelbarrows with NASA.
It helps that she is also very beautiful .. how high can she go on the Kenyan political ladder ??
Hypocrite, can you explain to use slow minded people how her beauty helps...
Corollary to that is if she were ugly what wont help...
What does looks got to do with making sure the common wananchi has food on the table,and bottle of tusker to relax with baada ya kazi.
thanks our women rep. u deserve it. we r with u