Michael Wamalwa

Michael Wamalwa (2003)

Michael Christopher Kijana Wamalwa (born November 25, 1944 in Kitale , Trans-Nzoia District , Rift Valley Province, † August 23, 2003 in Camden , England ) was a Kenyan politician .

biography

The son of the influential deputies William Wamalwa began a study on post-school in 1965 King's College of the University of Cambridge , which he finished 1,968th After completing a post-graduate degree in law at the London School of Economics , he was admitted to the Lincoln's Inn bar in 1970 . After returning to Kenya, he became Professor of Law at the University of Nairobi . He later also served as General Manager of the Kenya Stone Mining Company.

Wamalwa began his political career in 1979 as a candidate for the unity party Kenya African National Union (KANU) with the election of Member of Parliament , after he had already run unsuccessfully in the 1974 elections.

After the abolition of the one-party state by President Daniel Arap Moi in 1992, he joined the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy (FORD) and became chairman of the FORD-Kenya splinter group after Oginga Odinga's death in 1994. In the 1997 presidential elections, he ran as a candidate for FORD-K for the office of president, but was defeated by the incumbent arap Moi.

In October he formed the so-called National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) with ten other parties as chairman of FORD-K, at that time the third largest party in the country. In the subsequent elections in January 2003, which led to the end of arap Moi's 24-year rule, he was elected as the successor to Musalia Mudavadi as the eighth Vice President of Kenya since independence on December 12, 1963. Seven months later he died in office. He was succeeded as Vice President in September 2003 by Moody Awori .

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