Michuki family endorses candidate for Kangema seat

The family of the late Environment Minister John Michuki on Sunday endorsed Mr Tirus Ngahu for the Kangema parliamentary seat in the forthcoming by-election.

In a letter addressed to Kangema constituents by the late Minister’s widow, Josephine Michuki, she urged the residents to support Mr Ngahu but also insisted that the residents were at liberty to elect their favourable candidate.

Mrs Michuki said she had decided to back Mr Ngahu, an insurance magnate since he was capable of continuing with the projects left incomplete by the late MP John Michuki.

“I am keeping the promise I made on March to you that I would endorse my favourite candidate and I have decided to support Mr Tirus Ngahu, and that is my opinion as Mama Martin,” she said in a statement read at ACK church, Githiga by her son Fred Chege.

“However, the people of Kangema are free to make their own choice and elect whoever they think is suitable,” she added.

Mr Ngahu who is gunning for the seat on The National Alliance (TNA) party ticket was pleased with the endorsement.

Mr Chege said several contestants had approached his mother for the endorsement but she declined.

“Many approached her even a month after the death of the minister but she could not make up her mind at that time,” he said.