Munyua Waiyaki

Munyua Fredrick Lawrence Waiyaki (born December 12, 1926 in Kikuyu , Kiambu County , † April 25, 2017 in Nairobi ) was a Kenyan politician of the Kenya African National Union (KANU).

Life

Waiyaki attended Alliance High School in Kikuyu and was a school friend of Njoroge Mungai , who also became a minister. He graduated from Fort Hare University and worked with people like James Nyamweya in the struggle for independence from the United Kingdom . After Kenya gained independence on December 12, 1963, he was elected a member of Kenya for the first time as a candidate of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) and was a member of Kenya for 20 years until 1983. In this he initially represented the constituency of Nairobi Northeast , from which the constituency of Mathare emerged in 1974 .

In 1974 he was appointed Foreign Minister by President Jomo Kenyatta as successor to Njoroge Mungai and also held this office in the government of Kenyatta's successor Daniel Arap Moi , before he was replaced by Robert Ouko in the course of a government reshuffle in 1979 . He himself then took over the office of energy minister between 1979 and 1980 and of industry minister from 1980 to 1982, before finally replacing Gilbert Kabere M'mbijiwe as agriculture minister in 1982 and this ministerial office until 1983.

In the elections of December 29, 1997 Waiyaki ran for the United Patriotic Party for the office of president, but finished eleventh out of 15 candidates with 6,194 votes (0.1 percent). He was an older brother of the political activist and writer Wambui Otieno.

Web links

• Short biography in rulers.org
• List of Foreign Ministers of Kenya at rulers.org