Margaret Wanjiru is a Kenyan politician and a Bishop at Jesus is Alive Ministries (JIAM).

Career and Political life

She is also popularly known as 'Mama Na Kazi'. She belongs to the

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after leaving the ODM party and was elected to represent the

Starehe Constituency Starehe is an electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of seventeen constituencies in Nairobi City County, consisting of central and central to north areas of Nairobi. The constituency was established for the 1966 elections, with an area of . I ...

in the

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in the

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. In 2010-2013, she was appointed into the cabinet as an Assistant Minister for Housing. She risked losing her parliamentary seat after a 2010 vote recount indicated that her opponent,

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( PNU), had won the election by a clear margin. As a result, a by-election was held on September 20, 2010, in which Wanjiru retained the seat, defeating Kamanda.

Personal life

She has three children: Stephen Kariuki (a

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who has served as a Kenyan member of parliament representing Mathare constituency ), Evans Kariuki, and Purity Kariuki. She was diagnosed with COVID-19 on May 21, 2020, which led to her admission to the ICU at Nairobi Hospital.

References

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