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mojatu.com | Nottingham connected Kenya’s 2013 presidential candidates By Njeri Kabuga As Kenya’s presidential elections draw nearer, the number and names of candidates joining and leaving the race keep changing. In our previous magazine, we reviewed Eugene Wamalwa, George Luchiri, James Ole Kiyiapi and Martha Karua. In this article, Njeri reviews Peter Kenneth, Raila Ondinga, Raphael Tuju and Kalonzo Musyoka. She will conclude this series in November by analysing Uhuru Kenyatta, William Ruto, Musalia Mudavadi and Charity Ngilu. Peter Kenneth Party: Kenya National Congress (KNC) Peter Kenneth was born 1965. He attended Bahati Uhuru primary school before joining Starehe Boys Center in Nairobi. He studied law in the University of Nairobi and management at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was first elected a Member of Parliament for Gatanga Constituency, Murang’a County in December 2002, a seat he holds to date. He has also been the Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 since 2008 up to date. He was the Assistant Minister for Finance till between December 2005 and November 2007. Previously, he served as the Assistant Minister for Cooperative Development and Marketing from November 2003 to 2005. Mr. Kenneth is a professional banker who has worked in the as a manager of Prudential Finance and Bank (1986-1997) and the Chairman of Kenya Football Federation (1996-2000). He has been the director of Africa Reinsurance Corporation (1998- 2001) and Industrial Development Bank (1998-2002) and also served as the Chairman of PTA Reinsurance Company (1998-2009). 8 Jaramogi Oginga Odinga. He was born in January 1945 in Maseno, Nyanza province. He studied at Kisumu Union Primary School, Maranda High School where before joining Herder Institute, University of Leipzig in East Germany. In 1965 he went to the Technical University, Magdeburg in Germany where he graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1970. He returned to Kenya in 1970 and became a lecturer at the University of Nairobi. In 1971, he established the Standard Processing Equipment Construction and Erection Ltd. This was later renamed East African Spectre limited. He was appointed group standards manager of the Kenya Bureau of Standards in 1974. He became its Deputy Director in 1978, a post he held until he was detained by the government in 1982. He has been the MP for Langata since 1992. He has served as the Minister of Energy (2001-2002) and the Minister of Roads, Public Works, and Housing (2003-2005). He became the Prime Minister in April 2008 and serves as the supervisor of national unity coalition government in Kenya. Raphael Tuju Party: Party of Action (POA) Born in March, 1959 Mr Tuju has studied at Starehe Boys’ Centre and holds a Master of Arts (MA) Degree in Mass Communication from the University of Leicester in United Kingdom. He worked as a television producer with several documentary films and earned distinction of being the first TV Producer in Africa to win an International Emmy award for a TV production. He joined politics in 2002 Raila Amollo Odinga and has served the Government of Party: Orange Democratic Movement Kenya in various capacities since that (ODM) Mr. Raila Amollo Odinga is the son of time. He became the MP for Rarieda the first Vice President of Kenya, the late Constituency from 2002 to 2007. During this perion, Mr Tuju served as a minister in three ministries - Information and Communications, Tourism and Wildlife and in Foreign Affairs. After losing elections in 2008, he became an Advisor in the Office of the President from 2008 till 2011. He launched Party of Action (POA). Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka Party: Wiper Democratic Party Kalonzo was born in December 1953 in Tseikuru, Eastern Province. He studied at Tseikuru Full Primary School, Kitui High School and Meru High. He gained a degree in Law from the University of Nairobi in 1977 and postgraduate diploma in law from Kenya School of Law in 1978. He became the MP for Kitui North in 1985. He was the Assistant Minister for Works, Housing and Physical planning from 1986 to 1988. Between 1988 and 1992, he was the deputy speaker to the National Assembly and served until and was the National Organising Secretary for KANU. Musyoka was appointed as the minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. He became the MP for Mwingi North Constituency in 1997. He joined the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) as a founding member under the banner of the National Rainbow Coalition in 2001. He became the Minister for Foreign Affairs for a second time under until 2004 when he became the Minister for the Environment. He took part in the successful “No”-campaign in the November 2005 referendum on the proposed new constitution. He was the presidential candidate for ODM-Kenya in 2007. On January 8, 2008 he was appointed as Vice- President and Minister of Home Affairs and maintaining the seat even after the formation of the Coalition cabinet.