Margaret Wanjiru
{{short description|Kenyan politician}}
{{Use Kenyan English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Margaret Wanjiru
| honorific_prefix = Bishop
| birth_name = Margaret Wanjiru
| nationality = Kenyan
| occupation = Politician, Bishop
| party = Jubilee Party (formerly Orange Democratic Movement)
| office = Member of the National Assembly for Starehe Constituency
| term_start = 2007
| term_end = 2013
| predecessor = Maina Kamanda
| successor = Maina Kamanda
| office2 = Assistant Minister for Housing
| term_start2 = 2010
| term_end2 = 2013
| children = 3, including Stephen Kariuki
| website =
}}
Margaret Wanjiru{{Cite web|url=https://jiam.org/bishops-profile/|title=Bishop Margaret Wanjiru {{!}} Jesus Is Alive Ministries|website=jiam.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-10-24}} is a Kenyan politician and a Bishop at Jesus is Alive Ministries (JIAM).
Career and Political life
She is also popularly known as 'Mama Na Kazi'. She belongs to the Jubilee Party after leaving the ODM party{{Cite news|url=http://mobile.nation.co.ke/news/I-quit-ODM-Bishop-Margaret-Wanjiru/1950946-2481948-format-xhtml-4icnqh/index.html|title=I quit ODM long time ago|last=Wainaina|first=Eric|date=2014-10-10|work=Daily Nation|access-date=2014-10-10}} and was elected to represent the Starehe Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya in the 2007 Kenyan parliamentary election.[http://www.bunge.go.ke/members.php Members Of The 10th Parliament] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080701203557/http://www.bunge.go.ke/members.php |date=2008-07-01 }}. Parliament of Kenya. Accessed June 19, 2008. In 2010-2013, she was appointed into the cabinet as an Assistant Minister for Housing.{{Cite web|title=Margaret Wanjiru Kariuki|url=https://info.mzalendo.com/person/margaret-wanjiru/experience/|access-date=2021-05-18|website=Mzalendo|language=en}}
She risked losing her parliamentary seat after a 2010 vote recount indicated that her opponent, Maina Kamanda (PNU), had won the election by a clear margin.Daily Nation, April 16, 2010: [http://www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/Declare%20me%20MP%20says%20Kamanda%20/-/1064/900840/-/alt92mz/-/index.html Declare me MP, says Kamanda ] As a result, a by-election was held on September 20, 2010, in which Wanjiru retained the seat, defeating Kamanda.Daily Nation, September 20, 2010: [http://www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/PNU+trounced+in+Juja+as+ODM+wins+Starehe+/-/1064/1015044/-/14y823k/-/index.html PNU trounced in Juja as ODM wins Starehe]
Personal life
She has three children: Stephen Kariuki{{Cite web|url=http://info.mzalendo.com/person/steven-kariuki/|title=Steven Kariuki|website=Mzalendo|access-date=2017-10-24}} (a politician who has served as a Kenyan member of parliament representing Mathare constituency ), Evans Kariuki,{{Cite web|url=https://jiam.org/pastor-evans-ashley-kariuki/|title=Pastor Evans & Ashley Kariuki {{!}} Jesus Is Alive Ministries|website=jiam.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-10-24}} and Purity Kariuki.{{Cite news|url=http://nairobinews.nation.co.ke/life/bishop-wanjiru-attends-daughters-wedding-us/|title=Bishop Wanjiru attends daughter's wedding in US - PHOTOS - Nairobi News|date=2017-05-24|work=Nairobi News|access-date=2017-10-24|language=en-US}} She was diagnosed with COVID-19 on May 21, 2020, which led to her admission to the ICU at Nairobi Hospital.
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Category:Orange Democratic Movement politicians
Category:Members of the National Assembly (Kenya)
Category:21st-century Kenyan women politicians
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