Hon. Jayne Njeri Wanjiru Kihara

ASPIRING: MP –
Naivasha Constituency
COUNTY: Nakuru

Hon. Jayne Njeri Wanjiru Kihara is serving her third non-consecutive term as Member of Parliament for Naivasha Constituency and is one of the longest-serving female legislators in the National Assembly. She will defend her seat on a Democracy for Citizens Party (DCP) ticket in the 2027 General Elections.

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

She first won the seat in a 2003 by-election and was re-elected in 2017 and August 2022. Before politics she had nearly three decades of administrative experience in public ministries and large manufacturing firms, and she holds certificates in commercial secretarial studies. She was appointed Assistant Minister for Environment and Natural Resources by President Mwai Kibaki, and has served on the Departmental Committee on Lands and the Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity.

 

My political agenda

Her interests centre on expanding welfare systems for persons with disabilities and other grassroots special-interest groups. She has lobbied for the piping of fluoride-free water from Nyandarua County to Naivasha to address dental fluorosis, and uses NG-CDF funds for bursary programmes and laboratories in Naivasha’s public secondary schools.