| 词条 | Kiraitu Murungi |
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|honorific-prefix = Hon. |name = Kiraitu Murungi |honorific-suffix = EGH |image = |imagesize = |alt = |caption = |order = |office = Member of the Kenyan Senate |term_start = 28 March 2013 |term_end = 08 August 2017 |taoiseach = |constituency = Meru County |majority = |predecessor = Julius Muthamia |successor = Mithika Linturi |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|01|01|df=y}} |birth_place = Kionyo Village, Kenya Colony |birthname = |nationality = Kenyan |party = Jubilee Party |spouse = Priscilla Murungi |relations = |children = 4 |residence = Nairobi |alma_mater = University of Nairobi {{Small|(LLB), (LLM)}} Harvard Law School Kenya School of Law |occupation = |profession = Lawyer |cabinet = |committees = |portfolio = |religion = Christian |signature = |signature_alt = |website = {{URL|www.kiraitumurungi.com}} |footnotes = |blank1 = |data1 = }} Kiraitu Murungi (born 1 January 1952) is the current Governor of Meru County in Central Kenya. He is a former long-serving Member of Parliament for South Imenti constituency (1992-2013), former Cabinet Minister, and former Senator for Meru County. EducationKiraitu Murungi was born on 1 January 1952 in Kionyo village, Abogeta division of Meru District in Eastern Kenya Daniel M’Mwarania and Anjelika Kiajia. He attended Chuka High School before proceeding to Alliance High School. Murungi graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Nairobi in 1977 and attained a Master of Law in the same university in 1982. He attained another Master in 1991 of Law from 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.[1] Career in LawMurungi was a partner in a law firm he founded 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.[2] A case that is mentioned severally in Wanyiri Kihoro's book Never Say Die: The Chronicle of a Political Prisoner[3] and resulted in the detention of 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.[4] Political careerUpon 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 a FORD ticket during the first multi-party election in 1992, serving as MP for parliament for South Imenti Constituency, Meru. Kiraitu decamped from FORD to Democratic Party (DP) when FORD 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. He was then reelected as a member of parliament under a Party of National Unity (PNU) ticket in the 2007 elections. On 8 August 2017, he was elected the governor of Meru County under a Jubilee ticket, defeating the Incumbent Peter Munya an effectively becoming the second governor of the county since its inception. Prior to being the Governor Kiraitu served as the Senator for Meru County after winning the seat under the Alliance Party of Kenya (APK) ticket in the 2013 elections. Scandals and ControversiesHe is one of the closest allies of former Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki. He has been accused of attempting to cover-up in the Anglo Leasing Scandal, which he once claimed that it was a "scandal that never was".[5] On 8 February 2006, the BBC World Service aired a conversation between Murungi and former Governance and Ethics Permanent Secretary John Githongo where he appears to be coercing Githongo to drop his investigations on the Anglo Leasing Scandal. He had promised that Anura Pereira would forgive a debt of KES 30 million owed by Githongo's father.[6] Murungi initially maintained that he would not resign his cabinet post despite the allegations of corruption.[7] He claimed that he was innocent and that Githongo's reports are mere propaganda. On the recording, he has commented: "I have listened to the alleged tape recorded evidence. It is truncated, inaudible, insufficient and inadmissible to form any credible proof of the allegations being orchestrated by Mr Githongo".[8] On 13 February 2006, however, President Mwai Kibaki announced that Murungi had resigned to allow full investigation into the allegations.[9] On 14 February 2006, a day after his resignation, Murungi has claimed that he played no role at all to cover-up the Anglo Leasing Scandal. He blamed his woes on the politics of National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) and the media. However, it later emerged that President Mwai Kibaki had asked him to resign from the government.[10] On 10 February 2006, Murungi issued a statement that was faxed to all Kenyan media houses questioning the intentions and motives of John Githongo, in the form of 36 questions. Among the questions he asked is why John Githongo was recording his conversations with government officials and whether he was a spy for foreign nations.[11] On 15 November 2006 he was reinstated as Energy Minister by Kibaki.[12] He remained in that position in the Cabinet appointed by Kibaki on 8 January 2008, following the controversial December 2007 election.[13] In February 2005, Murungi apologised for making a remark which was criticised as trivialising both rape and corruption. He had said that criticism from aid donors of corruption in Kenya was "like raping a woman who is already willing".[14] See also
References1. ^ {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060307231620/http://www.statehousekenya.go.ke/government/cvs/kiraitumurungi.htm |date=7 March 2006 }} 2. ^WANYIRI KIHORO vs ATTORNEY GENERAL [THE COURT OF APPEAL AT NAIROBI (GACHUHI, MASIME & KWACH JJA) CIVIL APPEAL NO. 151 OF 1988 {{cite web|url=http://www.kituochakatiba.co.ug/wanyiri.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-02-18 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060114065925/http://www.kituochakatiba.co.ug/wanyiri.htm |archivedate=14 January 2006 |df= }} 3. ^Never Say Die: The Chronicle of a Political Prisoner By Wanyiri Kihoro Published by Michigan State Univ Pr, 1998 {{ISBN|9966-46-899-4}}, {{ISBN|978-9966-46-899-4}} 4. ^The Human Rights situation in Kenya under the leadership of Moi, The Internal and external contexts of Human Rights Practice in Kenya, Korwa G. Adar, African Sociological Review 4(1)2000 p. 74-96 {{cite web |url=http://www.codesria.org/Links/Publications/asr4_1full/Adar.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-02-18 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327061153/http://www.codesria.org/Links/Publications/asr4_1full/Adar.pdf |archivedate=27 March 2009 |df=dmy-all }}, CODESRIA 5. ^{{cite news|title=The Big Question: Can the President Shake Off Men in the Eye of a Storm?|publisher=The Daily Nation|date=29 January 2006|url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200601300340.html|accessdate=2006-02-13}} 6. ^{{cite news|title='Taped evidence' in Kenya scandal|date=9 February 2006|publisher=BBC News|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4695354.stm|accessdate=2006-02-10}} 7. ^{{cite news|title=Kenyan minister 'not resigning'|date=10 February 2006|publisher=BBC News|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4701048.stm|accessdate=2006-02-10}} 8. ^{{cite news|title=Kiraitu: 'BBC Tape Not Credible'|date=10 February 2006|publisher=Daily Nation|url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200602100373.html|accessdate=2006-02-10}} 9. ^{{cite news|title=Kenyan 'graft' ministers resign|date=13 February 2006|publisher=BBC News|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4710138.stm|accessdate=2006-02-13}} 10. ^{{cite news|title= Kibaki asked Kiraitu and Saitoti to quit|date=13 February 2006|publisher=Daily Nation|url=http://www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontententry.asp?category_id=2&newsid=67252|accessdate=2006-02-16}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}} 11. ^{{cite news|title=Minister Kiraitu's 36 questions to Githongo |url=http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news_s.php?articleid=36298 |date=10 February 2006 |publisher=Standard, Kenya |accessdate=2006-02-13 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061029025133/http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news_s.php?articleid=36298 |archivedate=29 October 2006 }} 12. ^Kibaki reinstates ministers after scandal, IOL 13. ^"Kenya: Kibaki Names Cabinet", The East African Standard (allAfrica.com), 8 January 2008. 14. ^{{cite news|title=Kenyan apology over rape remark|date=11 February 2005|publisher=BBC News|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4254343.stm|accessdate=2006-02-13}} External links
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