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
Mwai Kibaki manner, and speculation since then is that he had suffered a stroke, his second, the first being said to have occurred sometimes in the 1970s. His subsequent ill health greatly diminished his performance during his first term and the affairs of government during that time are said to have been largely run by a group of loyal aides, both in and out of government. Kibaki did not look well, for instance, when he appeared live on TV on 25 September 2003 to appoint Moody Awori Vice President after the death in office of Vice President, Michael Wamalwa Kijana. In January