Samuel Kivuitu (1939 – 25 February 2013) was head of the now defunct

Electoral Commission of Kenya Electoral Commission of Kenya refers to the now defunct commission that was disbanded by the 10th Parliament in 2008 and replaced with the Interim Independent Electoral Commission of Kenya. Samuel Kivuitu the last Chairman of the Commission and th ...

. He was reappointed to his post by the Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki ahead of the 2007 general election, having already been in charge during Kenya's general elections in 1997, 2002 as well as a constitutional referendum in 2005.

Overview

Samuel Kivuitu was appointed to the post By

Daniel Arap Moi Daniel Toroitich arap Moi ( ; 2 September 1924 – 4 February 2020) was a Kenyan politician who served as the second president of Kenya from 1978 to 2002. He was the country's longest-serving president. Moi previously served as the third vice ...

replacing

Zacchaeus Chesoni Zacchaeus Chesoni (born c. 1936 - 5 September 1999) was Chief Justice of Kenya and chairman of the Electoral Commission . Chesoni hails from the Kabras sub tribe Bamachina clan close to Chimoi area around Webuye Webuye, previously named Br ...

, who was the head of the Electoral commission during Kenya's 1992 general election. He was among the people blamed for the elections that lacked transparency in Kenya in the year 2007 which eventually led to post-election violence. He was later officially determined not responsible. He also said before he died that he didn't die of cancer he died of a broken heart trying to help the great people of Kenya. Kivuitu was educated in Uganda (1959–61) and Tanzania (1961–65). He was elected MP for Parklands in 1969-74 and 1983-88.

Death

He died on 25 February 2013 at the MP Shah hospital after suffering from throat cancer for years, though his death did not receive media attention as promptly as it would have been expected of a person of his status in the history of the country.

References

External links

Electoral Commission of Kenya
website * BBC News story
Kenya election chief reappointed
Kenyan politicians 1939 births 2013 deaths {{kenya-bio-stub