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Michael Kijana Wamalwa (Michael Christopher Kijana Wamalwa) was born on 25 November, 1944 in Sosio, Kenya, is a 8th Vice President of Kenya. Discover Michael Kijana Wamalwa's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 58 years old?

Popular As Michael Christopher Kijana Wamalwa
Occupation Politician
Age 58 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 25 November, 1944
Birthday 25 November
Birthplace Sosio, Kenya
Date of death 23 August, 2003
Died Place Hampstead, London, England
Nationality Kenya

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1944

Michael Christopher Kijana Wamalwa (25 November 1944 – 23 August 2003) was a renowned Kenyan politician who at the time of his death was serving as the eighth Vice-President of Kenya.

Michael Christopher Kijana Wamalwa was born in Sosio, a village near Kimilili in Kenya's Bungoma district.

He was the son of an influential MP, William Wamalwa.

He went on to become head boy and the best debater at his secondary school, Strathmore School.

He won a national essay competition and represented Kenya at a UN student forum.

1965

In 1965, he was awarded a Commonwealth scholarship to study law at King's College London, graduating with a third-class honours degree in Law in 1968 before going on to the London School of Economics.

1970

He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1970.

He returned to Kenya that same year and taught law at the University of Nairobi.

Some of the students he taught there would later become his political allies and opponents.

During this period, he also ran the family farms in the Kitale area, as well as holding several prominent government positions, including general manager of the Kenya Stone Mining Company and director of the Kenya-Japan Association.

1974

Wamalwa's first foray into politics came in Kenya's 1974 parliamentary election.

Just 30, his opponents painted him as too young and from too wealthy a background to effectively represent his constituency.

His campaign was flashy: it included the use of an aircraft and extravagant public rallies.

1979

He finally won a seat in 1979, as a protégé of Masinde Muliro.

1992

In the run-up to the first multi-party elections in post-independence Kenya, in 1992, Wamalwa identified with the Ford Kenya faction of the FORD opposition movement.

He was elected MP for Saboti Constituency, as well as the First Vice Chairman of his party.

1994

In January 1994, he became chairman of Ford Kenya following the death of Oginga Odinga.

1997

Wamalwa went on to contest the 1997 Kenyan elections as a leader of the opposition, but he fared badly and came only fourth in the nationwide tally of votes.

Alongside Tom Mboya, Ronald Ngala and PLO Lumumba, Wamalwa was a gifted Kenyan orator.

He sacrificed his riches to assist the poor and needy by paying school fees and assisting in raising living standards of the poor.

He started the Touch Africa foundation with a view toward empowering youths, the poor, and the needy to realize their dreams.

He was a member of Parliament (MP) for Saboti Constituency, in Trans-Nzoia District, Rift Valley Province.

His home town was Kitale.

Perhaps uniquely in Kenyan history, he managed to secure votes without tribal/ethnic chauvinism.

He was thought of as an automatic successor of President Mwai Kibaki.

He joined fellow 1997 presidential candidates Charity Kaluki Ngilu and Mwai Kibaki and formed an alliance.

They were later joined by Raila Odinga who had also contested in the 1997 presidential elections, and Kalonzo Musyoka who jumped ship from KANU after all indications proved that president Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi had settled on his predecessor's son Uhuru Kenyatta as his heir to the presidency.

This was seen in bad light by many KANU stalwarts who joined Musyoka and Odinga into the broad opposition alliance that formed the National Rainbow coalition (NARC) that swept KANU from power.

Mwai Kibaki was elected president and in turn rewarded Wamalwa with the Vice Presidency for his contribution to his presidential win.

2002

In the run up to the 2002 general elections, Wamalwa closed ranks with fellow opposition stalwarts in a bid to wrestle KANU out of power.

KANU had been the ruling party since independence.

In late 2002, during the election campaign, Mwai Kibaki was seriously injured in a car accident and was flown to London for treatment.

There he was visited by Wamalwa, who also fell ill and had to be treated, supposedly for kidney problems.

2003

This was apparently the forerunner of further illness because he was taken ill again in mid-2003 and was once again treated in London.

He briefly recovered, and returned to Kenya to marry Yvonne Nambia in a sumptuous ceremony; it was said that he proposed in Shakespearean English, and arrived at church in a vintage Ford, wearing a morning coat.

Just two months after the wedding, Wamalwa returned to the Royal Free Hospital for another check-up, leading to widespread speculation that his health was worse than doctors had been letting on.

He was never to recover.

He died on the morning of 23 August 2003, and was given a state burial at his farm in Kitale.

The cause of Wamalwa's illness and death has been disputed, and official statements from the government did not specify a particular cause, though some claim that he died of HIV/AIDS.

Various Kenyan newspapers listed gout, a chest infection, or pancreatitis as the reasons for his illness, while the British magazine The Economist reported his death had been caused by complications relating to AIDS.