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Kenyan politician
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Male
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Birth:
1953(Kenya Colony, British Empire)
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University of Nairobi
The details
Biography
James Kembi Gitura is a Kenyan politician who had been Deputy Speaker of the Kenyan Senate between 2013 and 2017.
Gitura represented the Kiharu Constituency in the National Assembly (Kenya) from 2003 to 2007. Subsequently, he was appointed as the Kenyan Ambassador to Belgium, serving from 2009 until his resignation in 2012 in order to stand for election to the Senate.
After winning a seat in the Senate, Gitura was elected as the Deputy Speaker of the Senate on 28 March 2013. He received 39 votes.
Gituara later lost his seat in to Irungu Kang'ata in the 2017 Kenya general election