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Former outlawed Mungiki group leader Maina Njenga has been cleared to contest the Laikipia senatorial seat on a Kenya African National Union (KANU) Party ticket by Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).
Njenga was the first Laikipia county leader to be issued with a certificate from the electoral management body ahead of the August 8 polls.
Four other candidates in Laikipia county senatorial seat presented their papers yesterday with the rest expected today.
Njenga was earlier in President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Jubilee party and had expressed interest to run for the seat on the ruling party ticket, but the party declined to allow him contest, prompting him to decamp to the Kenya’s independent party KANU.
Meanwhile in Nyeri, the youngest Senate aspirant in the country, Steve Maina Nderi was cleared to vie on New Democrats Party ticket.
Nderi, 22, will lock horns with former Mathira legislator Ephraim Maina of Jubilee Party and independent candidates Paul Kanja, Wambugu Nyamu and Daniel Wamahiu.
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When and Which university did the Mungiki leader Maina Njenga graduated from?
What was his highschool grade?
Kenya is a Banana republic
OMG! What are we saying to the youth by allowing hit-men run for office? Can someone clear the air as to what the process of clearing a candidate involves? Surely Kenya....
Kanu is not serious! I hope this Mungiki is humiliated early in the morning on August 8! We should not revive the dark days of merciless killings by Mungiki by electing their leader who should be serving a life sentence or be waiting for his fate in the death row at the Kamiti maximum prison.
This is a very sad and dark day for Kenya; and a lasting shame for the morally bankrupt spineless IEBC and the killing party of Moi & Sons!!!!! There should be a constitutional amendment to take out I from IEBC! What is the point of having the I when this useless body filled with ignorant political cronies is neither Independent nor intelligent -- unless the I stands for Ignorant or Incompetent and Irresponsible?
EX Mungiki Leader Maina Njenga
K.A.N.U is no longer a party to trust if it can clear a man of Mungiki.
Does it mean there was no Mungiki? Police and intelligent should tell the Kenyans who was the leader of Mungiki.
To me I would only conclude Mungiki was K.A.N.U
And hired Maina as General to destroy central provence
Kenyans should fully forget K.A.N.U.
@ Hon Kenjuu. This time I agree with you 100%. I must be dreaming. Ndugu Maina wa Njenga has been cleared by KANU and "IEBC" to do what?
Earlier today Ndugu Uhuru endorsed another man of "questionable moral character " Ndugu Sonko to run for the position of the " governor " of Nairobi!
This thug makes the chill run down the spine remembering how Mungiki tortured and killed people under his command
Are we Kenyans serious? We have people who have fleeced the tax payers of billions of shilings. We have people thought to be drug dealers also runinning for various posts in our govenment. God help us!. The sad thing is, they will be elected.