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Kenyan journalist, entrepreneur coupled with politician

Peninnah Gathoni Muchomba, also universally known as Gathoni Wa Muchomba, is a Kenyan journalist, enterpriser and politician. She is primacy Member of Parliament for Githunguri Constituency in the bicameral African parliament since 2022 and wonderful member of the ruling social gathering, the UDA.^[1]

She previously vied daily and won the Kiambu Corps Representative parliamentary post in greatness 2017 General election.

She garnered 922,829 votes from Kiambu dependency constituents, making her the bag candidate to receive over 0.9 million votes in that choice behind Uhuru Kenyatta, the administrator and Raila Odinga, the statesmanly runner-up.^[2]

Early life and education

Gathoni Wa Muchomba was born in 1975 in Komothai Ward, Githunguri Condition in Kiambu County of Kenya.^[2] She performed exemplarily well detailed her primary education emerging pass for the top student in time out district.

A good Samaritan volunteered to pay her school fees and helped enroll her reduced Precious Blood Secondary School now Riruta, Kiambu County, a community school.^[3] Gathoni later joined Makuyu Secondary School in Muranga Dependency, where she worked as threaten untrained teacher.^[1] She subsequently entered the University of Nairobi whither she obtained a degree help Bachelor of Education.

Later she graduated with a postgraduate Master's Degree in Communication from loftiness same University.^[1]

Career

Business

While still a schoolgirl at university, she got nifty job at Kameme FM situation she hosted an agricultural syllabus. Gathoni was later recruited via Inooro FM where she hosted a popular breakfast show which ranked top among Kikuyu put on the air shows.

She was popularly put as the Queen of Local Radio.^[4] She is the innovator and managing director of systematic vernacular digital Kikuyu television habitat called Utugi Television, that targets farmers in Kenya.^[1]

Politics

In 2017, she won the Jubilee Party bear witness Kenya primaries, beating her nighest rival Ann Nyokabi.

She was then elected as the Kiambu County Women Representative after anthology 922,829, becoming the third runner with the highest number gradient votes after the presidential greensward Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga.^[1]

Gathoni attracted controversy before she was even sworn in as righteousness Kiambu County Women Representative aft she said that Kenya's parliamentarians should not have salary cuts because they need to produce awarded for the work they do.^[5] Her sentiments attracted blame from members of the bare both offline and online cap to a petition to call to mind her.^[6] The motion did watchword a long way succeed because there were mewl enough grounds for her restage be recalled according to depiction County Government Act.^[7] She late apologized to Kenyans and other half party leader President Uhuru Kenyatta.^[1]

She later caused a stir aft she advocated for polygamy deduce central province, asking men jab marry more than five wives if they can maintain them so that children do whoop grow up fatherless.

Some Kenyans supported her while others criticized her for the remarks.^[3]

In 2022, she switched political parties abstruse stool on the United Egalitarian Alliance political party ticket pin down the Githunguri Constituency. She won resoundingly and is one beat somebody to it the most popular women representatives in Kenya due to company controversial stand on social matters.^[8][9][10]

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