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 National Rainbow Coalition (NARC). On 14 October 2002, at a large opposition rally in Uhuru Park, Nairobi, Kibaki was nominated the NARC opposition alliance presidential candidate after Raila Odinga made the famous declaration, "Kibaki Tosha!" On 3 December 2002, Kibaki was injured in a road accident while on his way back to Nairobi from a campaign meeting at Machakos junction From Nairobi. He was subsequently hospitalized in Nairobi, then London, after sustaining fracture injuries in the accident. He still walks rather awkwardly as a result of those injuries. The rest of his presidential campaign was thus conducted by his NARC