peoplepill id: hon-lawrence-sifuna
HLS
2 views today
2 views this week
Hon. Lawrence Sifuna

Hon. Lawrence Sifuna

The basics

Quick Facts

Gender
Male
The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Lawrence Sifuna Sifuna (born January 23, 1946) is a Kenyan politician who was Member of Parliament for Bumula, the first MP of that constituency. He was first elected to the Kenyan Parliament on November 8, 1979 in the then larger Bungoma South constituency. Sifuna was re-elected in 1983 too. He lost to a former North Eastern Provincial Commissioner Maurice Makhanu in the 1988 General Election after Bungoma South constituency was renamed Kanduyi. Sifuna recaptured the seat during the first multi-party General Election of 1992 on a Ford Asili ticket.

Hon. Sifuna went to Sang'alo Primary School and Nalondo Intermediate School before he moved to Mariri College in Uganda, where he sat for the Cambridge General Certificate of Education (CGCE) examination. The former MP is a fully trained chartered accountant. He is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants (FCA) and a Fellow of the Association of International Accountants (FAIA). Sifuna is a household name in Bungoma county popular for defending the welfare of sugarcane growers.

On the national stage, Hon. Sifuna is remembered as one of the left-wing members of parliament in the 80's (a.k.a the seven bearded sisters) who persistently attacked AG Njonjo and government policies that clamped down on the basic human rights of Kenyans. Others included Koigi wa Wamwere, James Orengo, Abuya Abuya, Chibule wa Tsuma, Onyango Midika, Mwashengu wa Mwachofi and Philomena Chelangat Mutai. They are part of the larger group that fought for Kenya's second liberation., Omumutilu, Kenya's Second Liberation Fighter and a member of the bearded sisters

The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Hon. Lawrence Sifuna is in following lists
comments so far.
Comments
From our partners
Sponsored
Hon. Lawrence Sifuna
arrow-left arrow-right instagram whatsapp myspace quora soundcloud spotify tumblr vk website youtube pandora tunein iheart itunes