Boniface Kinoti Gatobu is a Kenyan politician who was elected as a member of the Kenyan Parliament in the 2013 parliamentary elections.[2][3]
Kinoti Gatobu | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Kenyan Parliament | |
| Assumed office March 2013 | |
| Constituency | Buuri |
| Majority | 15,793 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1986 (age 37–38) Kenya |
| Political party | Independent |
| Relations | Married |
| Residence | Meru |
| Alma mater | University of Nairobi (BCom) |
| Occupation | Freelance writer |
| Positions | Editor, Unique Homes Magazine[1] |
| Nickname | Kijana (young man) |
At 26, he was the youngest member of Kenya's 11th Parliament.[4] When he was just 23 and fresh out of the university, Boniface rejected three job offers (and the six-figure salaries that went with them) to work in his Kibirichia Village as a primary school teacher on voluntary basis. His grandfather was a squatter. His father, Moses Gatobu, a secondary school teacher, went to a simple high school (Miathene) in Meru; and his mother, Agnes Kinya Gatobu, joined a diploma teacher training college after giving birth to Kinoti, leaving him in the care of his Aunt, Gladys Njiiru[citation needed]. In 2017 December, he expressed his interest to vie for Gubernatorial seat in Meru County instead of parliamentary seat which he had held from 2013 to 2017. 3 days to national elections, he stepped down for his opponent, Governor Kiraitu Murungu. Currently, he does not serve in any governmental capacity. However, it is highly speculated that he is one of the president's advisors.
References
edit- ^ "Team: Unique Homes Magazine". Unique Homes Magazine. Archived from the original on 29 March 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
- ^ "The firsts in the Kenyan elections". safariafricaradio.com. 11 March 2013. Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
- ^ "You can't take this man out of the village". Daily Nation (Kenya). 12 December 2012. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
- ^ Kenya CitizenTV (2013-03-20), Kinoti Gatobu : Youngest MP Elect, retrieved 2017-11-23
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