Farah Maalim Mohamed ( so, Faarax Maaliim Maxamed) is a

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politician who served as Lagdera MP from 1992 to 1997, and then from 2007 to 2013. He then moved to Dadaab constituency in 2022. He is an

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of the

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. He is a parliamentarian and the former Deputy

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, and has over thirty years of experience on the Kenyan political scene. He is of Somali ethnicity.

Biography

Maalim belongs to an ethnic Somali family. He was educated at

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, and he studied for an MA in

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at /Https://mstcdc.or.tz/ MS-TCDC and studied law at the

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, before enrolling to the

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for the statutory post graduate law course that is a prerequisite to admission to the Kenyan roll of

s. He is a member of the

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political party in

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, and was elected to represent the

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in the

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in the

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. He had previously served in the 7th Kenyan Parliament. In November 2012, Maalim led a group of MPs, which accused Kenyan soldiers of fomenting violence and using undue force during a security operation in

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. The legislators threatened to take the matter to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) if the perpetrators were not brought to justice. Maalim also suggested that the deployment of the soldiers was unconstitutional and had not received the requisite parliamentary approval, and that the ensuing rampage cost Garissa entrepreneurs over Sh1.5 billion to Sh2billion in missed revenue. In the 2013 elections, Maalim ran for the

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Senate seat, but was defeated by

Yusuf Haji Mohamed Yusuf Haji ( so, Maxamed Yuusuf Xaaji) (23 December 1940 – 15 February 2021) was a Kenyan politician. He was the Minister of Defence of Kenya from 2008 to 2013, and briefly served as its acting Minister of Internal Security and Provinc ...

. In the 2022 elections, Maalim was elected Wiper MP for

Dadaab Dadaab ( so, Dhadhaab) is a semi-arid town in Garissa County, Kenya. It is the site of a UNHCR base hosting 223,420 registered refugees and asylum seekers in three camps (Dagahaley, Hagadera and Ifo) as of 13 May 2019, making it the third-largest ...

with a landslide win against Abdikheir Abdullahi Dubow who was backed by then the immediate MP Hon. Mohamed Dahir Duale.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Maalim, Farah 1948 births Living people Orange Democratic Movement politicians Members of the National Assembly (Kenya) Kenyan people of Somali descent Alumni of Maseno School Members of the 13th Parliament of Kenya 21st-century Kenyan politicians