Women bounce back into the parliamentary race

Published on December 5, 2007

 After her defeat during the controversial PNU nomination in Kandara Constituency, Alice Muthoni Wahome bounced back into the race wielding a Safina ticket.

Speaking to Election Platform, she describes the PNU nomination exercise in Kandara as "horrible", saying the process was open rigging and involved many other malpractises which the presiding officers failed to — or decided not to — notice.

"Am now in the race in full swing on a Safina ticket," she says.

Initially, Muthoni had been issued with a PNU nomination certificate that was later revoked.

On this she comments: "Since it was clear I had actually won the nomination, the PNU secretariat issued me with the nomination certificate which the rival camp fought and grabbed from me."

The lawyer is among the few women form Central Province who are in the race for Parliament.

But how does she plan to win in an area that is predominantly PNU? "I have a profound network in this constituency. This explains why I beat Joshua Toro [the immediate former MP and Roads Assistant Minister] in the Narc-K grassroots elections," she says.

Muthoni is also the Murang’a District chairperson of the Maendeleo ya Wanawake Organisation.

She is not a newcomer in the Kandara politics. In 2002, she was floored by Toro in the Narc nominations before defecting and coming a strong second in the final poll.