Jael Mbogo in 1965 with her family. She became a political figure by the turn of the 1960s. She contested against Mwai Kibaki (who will later become the third president of Kenya for eleven years from 2002 to 2013) in 1969 for the parliamentary seat of Bahati, now an estate in the Kamukunji Constituency in Nairobi. At that time Mwai Kibaki was a siting cabinet minister in the government of Uhuru Kenyatta. Jael Mbogo lost to Mwai Kibaki by 500 votes. Jael Mbogo Jael Mbogo (born in 1939 in the Rift Valley Province) is a Kenyan social worker, women rights campaigner and
James Nyamweya when he mobilised the DP campaign so well in Kisii during the 1992 elections, which enabled Mwai Kibaki to get the highest number of votes in Kisii in comparison to other presidential candidates. Nyamweya's son (George) became Secretary General of the Democratic Party and later formed Party of National Unity (PNU) with President Mwai Kibaki and subsequently became party National Vice-Chairman and nominated Member of Parliament. In his lifetime, Nyamweya received several awards, titles, and honours. Among these were recognitions from Moravian College in Pennsylvania, which awarded him a doctorate degree of laws in 1965, and St. Lawrence University in