Paul Muite

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Paul Muite
Member of the Kenyan Parliament
In office
1992–2007
ConstituencyKabete Constituency
Personal details
Born (1945-04-18) 18 April 1945 (age 78)
Kenya
Political partySafina
Other political
affiliations
FORD
FORD-Kenya
Alma materUniversity of London (LL.B)
Kenya School of Law (Dip)
ProfessionLawyer

Paul Kibugi Muite (born 18 Apr 1945) is a Kenyan lawyer and politician[1]

Political career[edit]

He is a prominent figure in Kenya's second liberation struggle during the 1990s to remove the single party dictatorship established by the Kenya African National Union in 1982.[2] He served as vice chairman of the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy - Kenya[3] while it was under the tutelage of Oginga Odinga and is the founding chairman of the Safina party of Kenya. He previously served as a law clerk in the years preceding Kenya's attainment of independence. He has served several terms in the National Assembly of Kenya as the member of parliament of Kabete Constituency.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Extrajudicial killings by Kenyan police resume, groups say". thestar.com. 8 February 2011. Retrieved 25 February 2011.
  2. ^ "Tracing fortunes of second liberation 'Young Turks' - Daily Nation". www.nation.co.ke. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
  3. ^ http://www.keesings.com/search?kssp_selected_tab=article&kssp_a_id=39627n02ken Renewed ethnic violence | Keesing's World News Archives
  4. ^ Murunga, Godwin Rapando (2002). "A CRITICAL LOOK AT KENYA'S NON-TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY". Journal of Third World Studies. 19 (2): 89–111. doi:10.2307/45194058. ISSN 8755-3449.