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Sons and Daughters of Nyamira

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Published on Wednesday, 12 October 2011 15:21

George Moseti Anyona -  the late former MP for Kitutu Masaba was a fiery politician whose career spanned two eras.

During the Kenyatta regime, he was the whistle blower for every scandal for which he was detained.

And in the Moi era, he was detained again for trying to form an alternative political party with Jaramogi Oginga Odinga to challenge Kanu's monopoly.

Out of detention, Mr Anyona was incarcerated together with former Runyenjes MP Njeru Kathangu on trumped up charges of belonging to the Mwakenya underground movement.

He rekindled his active political career with the re-introduction of multi-partyism and regained his Kitutu Masaba seat. He died in 2003.

John Simba... the chairman of the University of Nairobi Council is one of the leading pioneer administrators in the financial sector.

He ran the Industrial and Commercial Development Corporation as its CEO for nearly a decade before moving to head the Parastatal Reform Commission.

He presided over the National Bank of Kenya as non-executive chairman overseeing its expansion in the 1990s before he went into university administration.

A lawyer, he also runs Simba and Simba advocates with his wife.

Japheth Maranga... is a pioneer educationist who became deputy Provincial Education Officer in Nyanza soon after Independence.

He then went abroad for studies before returning to embark on university teaching career which took him to Nairobi and Kenyatta before his retirement from Moi University.

Hezekiah Nyamao, Charles Asati and Robert Ouko... together with the Julius Sang from Nandi, they were the quartet which won Kenya a gold medal in the 400 metres relay at the 1972 Munich Olympics Ouko is now chairman of Athletics Kenya, Nairobi branch.

Nyantika Maiyoro... now aged 79, is a sporting legend in Kenya. Running with bare feet at the Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada in 1954, he won a gold medal for the then Kenya colony in the 5,000 metres.

Okong'o Omogeni... is the chairman of the Advisory Board of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission - renamed the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission - under the new Constitution. A lawyer, he is a former chairman of the Law Society of Kenya.

Wilkister Onsando... is a former chairwoman of Maendeleo Ya Wanawake Organisation who is remembered for having steered the group during the Moi era closer to the then ruling party Kanu. Her tenure at Maendeleo House was eventful during the turbulent period of Kanu rule.

Clare Omanga... is a renowned writer of fiction and children's literature. Her husband, the late Andrew Omanga was a Cabinet Minister in the Moi government.

John Sorana Akama... is the principal of the fast expanding Kisii University College, a constituent of Egerton University.

Naftali Temu... the late 10,000 metres runner was Kenya's gold medalist at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico.

Evans Aosa... is a business economist who teaches in the Faculty of Commerce at the University of Nairobi. He is an expert in strategic planning in Africa.

Winston Onsongo Marasi... is a civil engineer, formerly a lecturer at the University of Nairobi.