Wanjiru, Kabogo, and Mbuvi win in by elections

William Kabogo

Narc Kenya's William Kabogo 

Gideon Mbuvi 'sonko'

and Gideon Mbuvi "sonko"
have won the Juja and Makadara parliamentary seats respectively, ODM Bishop Margaret Wanjiru has also reclaimed her Starehe seat defeating Maina Kamanda.

Kabogo has 45,020 votes against rival Alice Ng'ang'a with 24,326 followed by former Member of Parliament George Thuo coming third with 19,366 votes.

Bishop Margaret Wanjiru has  29,287, against Maina Kamanda's 25,416 votes.

Bishop Margaret Wanjiru

In Makadara, Mbuvi has 19,913 against Ndolo with 17,652 followed by Dick Wathika with 11,088 votes.

Among the petitioners, only Mr Kabogo in Juja won as Mr Kamanda and Mr Ndolo fell by the wayside.

It was a major disappointment for Deputy PM Uhuru Kenyatta, who had campaigned hard for Mr Thuo, a former Government Chief Whip and Mr Wathika, but eventually lost to a candidate supported by his political rival Gichugu, MP Martha Karua.

Mr Kabogo described the win as “sweet”.

“The victory that was stolen from the people of Juja has been given back,” he said. “The people of Juja have quietly been waiting for this day.”

He accused the Provincial Administration of intimidation and working in favour of one candidate.

“Although the IIEC have done a good job, they were not able to deal with cases of bribery despite several reports that we made to them,” Mr Kabogo said.

He suggested that the IIEC be given powers to arrest and prosecute, claiming that the police were partisan.

Mr Thuo spent most of the day and evening at the Blue Posts hotel in Thika.

Wild celebrations marked Mr Kabogo’s victory. The youths lined Kenyatta Avenue, opposite Thika Town Hall, where the IIEC had set up a screen to relay the results as they came in from the polling stations.

The celebrations began shortly after 8pm when Mr Kabogo opened a 15,000-vote lead against his nearest opponent, Alice Ng’ang’a.