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 before multi-party politics were introduced in 1992, he infamously declared that agitating for multi-party democracy and trying to dislodge KANU from power was like "trying to cut down a fig tree with a razor blade". It was therefore with great surprise that the country received the news of Kibaki's resignation from government and leaving KANU on Christmas Day in December 1991, only days after the repeal of Section 2A of the Constitution, which restored the multi-party system of government. Soon after his resignation, Kibaki founded the Democratic Party (DP) and entered the presidential race in the upcoming multi-party elections of