Ekwe Ethuro
| Ekwee Ethuro | |
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| Speaker of the Kenyan Senate | |
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Assumed office 28 March 2013 |
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| Deputy | Kembi Gitura |
| Member of Parliament for Turkana Central | |
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In office 3 February 1998 – 14 January 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Immanuel Isaac Ichor Imana |
| Succeeded by | John Lodepe Nakara |
| Assistant Minister for Planning | |
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In office 14 December 2005 – 10 January 2008 |
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| President | Mwai Kibaki |
| Assistant Minister for Labour and Human Resource Development | |
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In office 1998–2002 |
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| President | Daniel arap Moi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 31 December 1963 |
| Nationality | Kenyan |
| Alma mater |
University of Nairobi (BSc) Clemson University |
Ekwee David Ethuro (born 31 December 1963) is a Kenyan politician. He was elected as the first Speaker of the modern Kenyan Senate on 28 March 2013. From 1998 to 2013 he served as a Member of Parliament representing Turkana Central. He also served as the Assistant Minister for Planning and National Development from 1998 to 2002 under the government of President Daniel arap Moi. He was re-elected as Member of Parliament for Turkana Central in the 2007 general elections and steered the proceedings of the 10th Parliament in the position of acting Speaker of the House whenever the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker were absent.
Born on December 31, 1963, Ethuro attended secondary school at Lodwar High School from 1978 to 1981. He is an alumnus of The Alliance High School, holds an MSc degree from the Clemson University, and a BSc degree from the University of Nairobi.
Before joining Parliament, Ethuro, an ardent soccer lover and member of the Bunge FC team, served as a deputy country representative for Oxfam and as a research scientist for the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute.
Ethuro was first elected to Parliament as the Member for Turkana Central in the 1997 General Election, and has been re-elected three times, consecutively. He served as the Assistant Minister for Planning and National Development from 1998 to 2002 under President Moi's government, an appointment that came immediately after his first election to Parliament.
Apart from the acting Speaker’s position, Ethuro featured in critical Parliamentary Select Committees of the House, top among them the Committees on the Constitution, the Budget Committee, and the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) Committee. He was among key members of Parliament that actively and successfully mid-wifed the Constitution, and served as a member of the Constitution Implementation Oversight Committee.
He has served as the chairperson of the parliamentary committee on CDF for two terms of Parliament from 2002 to 2012.
Ethuro played an active role in the Amani Forum — a Great Lakes regional parliamentary peace initiative that mobilised MPs and involved them in peace forums following the 2007 post-election violence and stalemate that came about from the presidential election result, which was disputed by ODM. As the chairman of the forum, and with the facilitation of Parliament, he convened an urgent meeting of MPs and dispatched various teams to the grassroots to preach peace, an initiative that contributed to calming down the political temperatures at the time.
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