Family members elected MCAs in Nakuru

This year’s General election has gone against all odds to bring together a family. Mwangi Ngarama and his mother-in-law Grace Mwathi are newly-elected Members of County Assembly (MCAs) in Nakuru County’s Lanet Umoja and Bahati wards, respectively where they vied for the seats under United Democratic Alliance (UDA) tickets.

Mwathi had been serving as a nominated MCA in the Nakuru County Assembly while Ngarama was first elected to the assembly in 2013.

Grace Mwathi and her daughter, Lilian Mwathi will also be joining the Nakuru County Assembly where she has been working as a clerk since last General Election.

“I feel honoured by the trust the people of Bahati have bestowed on me to lead them for the next five years. It is even a bigger honour that my son-in-law has also been elected,” Mwathi said as quoted by a local daily.

“During the last five years, I have worked with my daughter at the Assembly where we had to interact as a family and in official capacities. It was an exciting experience for us.” the older Mwathi added.

“We shall do the same this time to ensure my daughter and her husband do not find ourselves in the same committee. During debates, we may differ but at no time shall I ‘beat’ my son,” said Mwathi.

Ngarama noted that he rarely crossed paths with his wife, Lilian since she joined the County Assembly. In the rare instances that he did, he kept his interactions strictly official.

“I only met with my wife on a few official occasions despite working in the same place. Whenever it happened, she had to refer to me officially and not as ‘Mwas’,” recalls Ngarama.