Margaret Wanjiru


Margaret Wanjirū is a Kenyan politician and a Bishop at Jesus is Alive Ministries.

Career and Political life

Wanjirū is also popularly known as 'Mama Na Kazi'. She belongs to the Jubilee Party after leaving the ODM party and was elected to represent the Starehe Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya in the 2007 Kenyan parliamentary election. In 2010-2013, she was appointed into the cabinet as an Assistant Minister for Housing.
She risked losing her parliamentary seat after a 2010 vote recount indicated that her opponent, Maina Kamanda, had won the election by a clear margin. As a result, a by-election was held on September 20, 2010, in which Wanjirū retained the seat, defeating Kamanda.

Personal life

She has three children: Stephen Kariūki, Evans Kariūki, and Purity Kariūki. She was diagnosed with COVID-19 on May 21, 2020, which led to her admission to the ICU at Nairobi Hospital.