David Musila | |
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Senator for Kitui County | |
Assumed office 28 March 2013 |
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Assistant Minister of State for Defence | |
In office 17 April 2008 – 10 April 2013 |
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Member of Parliament for Mwingi South Constituency | |
In office 3 February 1998 – 14 January 2013 |
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Succeeded by | (abolished) |
Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Kenya | |
In office 9 January 2003 – 22 October 2007 |
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President | Mwai Kibaki |
Preceded by | Joab Omino |
Succeeded by | Farah Maalim |
Personal details | |
Born |
Kenya Colony |
24 February 1943
Nationality | Kenyan |
Political party | WDM-K |
Children | 4 |
Alma mater | Bishop College (BA) |
David Musila (born 1943) is a Kenyan politician. He belongs to the Wiper Democratic Movement and was elected to represent the Mwingi South Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya since the Kenyan parliamentary election, 1997. He was a DO, DC and deputy PC between 1966 and 1979. In 1979, he was Moi's choice as PC for the troubled Central Province, a post which he retained until 1985, after which he became Director of Tourism. He retired from the civil service in 1988. He was elected as a KANU MP in 1997 and has remained in the house ever since, moving to the LDP wing of NARC in 2002, and was Deputy-Speaker in the 2003 Parliament. He was a KANU official in the 1990s and later became Deputy Chairman and then Chairman of the Liberal Democratic party (LDP).