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Kembi Gitura
Deputy Speaker of the Kenyan Senate
In office
28 March 2013 – 31 August 2017
SpeakerEkwee Ethuro
Majority39 (58.2%)
Member of the Kenyan Senate
In office
28 March 2013 – 31 August 2017
Succeeded byIrungu Kang'ata
ConstituencyMurang'a County
Kenyan Ambassador to Belgium
In office
March 2009 – August 2012
PresidentMwai Kibaki
Member of the Kenyan Parliament
In office
2003–2007
ConstituencyKiharu Constituency
Personal details
Born1953 (age 70–71)
Kenya Colony
Political partyTNA
Alma materUniversity of Nairobi

James Kembi Gitura is a Kenyan politician who had been Deputy Speaker of the Kenyan Senate between 2013 and 2017.

Gitura represented the Kiharu Constituency in the National Assembly (Kenya) from 2003 to 2007. Subsequently, he was appointed as the Kenyan Ambassador to Belgium, serving from 2009 until his resignation in 2012 in order to stand for election to the Senate.[1]

After winning a seat in the Senate, Gitura was elected as the Deputy Speaker of the Senate on 28 March 2013. He received 39 votes.[2]

Gituara later lost his seat in to Irungu Kang'ata in the 2017 Kenya general election[3]

References

  1. ^ "Kenyan envoy quits to vie for Muranga Senate seat". Daily Nation. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
  2. ^ "TNA's Gitura wins Deputy Senate Speaker seat". the-star.co.ke. 28 March 2013. Archived from the original on 31 March 2013. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
  3. ^ https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2017/08/10/kembi-gitura-concedes-in-muranga-senator-race-asks-poll-losers-to_c1614380