Jael Mbogo (born 1939 in the Rift Valley Province) is a Kenyan social worker, women rights campaigner and politician. Her parents hail from Ugenya, Sidindi; but she is married in Gem, Siaya. She founded the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy, one of the early political parties in Kenya in East Africa. She was the first female shorthand typist employed to work at the City Council of Nairobi in the capital of Kenya.

Career

Jael Mbogo was born in 1939 in Kenya and trained as a shorthand typist. She studied for an economics degree in the United States of America and worked with women political groups in Tanzania, returning to Kenya in 1965 with her family. She became a political figure by the turn of the 1960s. She contested against

Mwai Kibaki Emilio Stanley Mwai Kibaki (15 November 1931 – 21 April 2022) was a Kenyan politician who served as the third President of Kenya from December 2002 until April 2013 and is regarded as one of Kenya's founding fathers. He had previously ser ...

(later the third president of Kenya from 2002 to 2013) in 1969 for the parliamentary seat of Bahati, now Kamukunji Constituency in Nairobi. At that time Mwai Kibaki was a sitting cabinet minister in the government of

Jomo Kenyatta Jomo Kenyatta (22 August 1978) was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President from 1964 to his death in 1978. He was the country's first indigenous ...

. Jael Mbogo lost to Mwai Kibaki by 500 votes.In the 1974 parliamentary elections, she posed stiff competition to Mr Kibaki forcing him to shift base to his native Othaya constituency. He would hold the seat from 1974 to 2013

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