Kiraitu Murungi
| Kiraitu Murungi | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Kenyan Senate | |
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Assumed office 28 March 2013 |
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| Constituency | Meru County |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
1 January 1952 Kionyo Village, Kenya Colony |
| Nationality | Kenyan |
| Political party | APK |
| Alma mater |
University of Nairobi (LLB), (LLM) Harvard Law School Kenya School of Law |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Religion | Christian |
| Website | www |
Kiraitu Murungi (born 1 January 1952) is a Kenyan politician.
Kiraitu Murungi was born on 1 January 1952 in Kionyo village, Abogeta division of Meru District in Eastern Kenya. He attended Chuka High School before proceeding to Alliance High School. Murungi graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in Nairobi University in 1977 and attained a Master of Law in the same university in 1982. He attained another Master in 1991 of Law at Harvard Law School where he served two years in exile in the United States at the heyday of Daniel arap Moi's one-party dictatorship.
Murungi was a partner in a law firm he founded together with Gibson Kamau Kuria and Aaron Ringera, where he practised law for ten years. His biggest case during this tenure was representing political prisoners of the Moi government including Wanyiri Kihoro against the government itself. A case that is mentioned severally in Wanyiri Kihoro's book Never Say Die: The Chronicle of a Political Prisoner and resulted in the detention of Mr. Kuria in an attempt to cause the abandonment of the case, as well as a period in exile in various western countries for both Mr Murungi and Mr. Kuria.
Upon his return from exile, Kiraitu joined the struggle for multi-party democracy in 1990 as one of Kenya's "Young Turks." Murungi joined the newly formed Forum for the Restoration of Democracy (FORD)following Kenya's return to multi-party politics in 1991. He was elected to parliament on FORD ticket during the first multi-party election in 1992, serving as MP for parliament for South Imenti Constituency, Meru. Kiraitu decamped from FORD when the party splintered in the aftermath of the demise of its leader, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, retaining the South Imenti seat during the 1997 general elections. As an opposition member of parliament between 1991 and 2002, Kiraitu served as the shadow Attorney-General and member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Anti-Corruption.
Murungi has been a member of parliament since 1992 and has formerly served as Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs and as the shadow Attorney General. In the 2002 Kenya General Elections he won the South Imenti Constituency MP seat for the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) party. After the Government's defeat in the 21 November 2005 constitutional referendum, he was appointed Minister of Energy.
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