Justin Muturi

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Honourable
Justin Muturi
Siakago Constituency
In office
5 October 1999 – 22 October 2007
PresidentDaniel arap Moi
Mwai Kibaki
Preceded bySilas Ita
Succeeded byLenny Kivuti
Personal details
Born (1956-04-28) 28 April 1956 (age 67)
Political partyUDA
Alma materUniversity of Nairobi

Justin Bedan Njoka Muturi (born 28 April 1956) is the current

National Assembly, beating former speaker Kenneth Marende
by a 219–129 margin.

Muturi was first elected as a member of the

10th Parliament. He vied for re-election in 2007
, but was defeated by Lenny Kivuti with a small margin in a heavily contented election.

According to Nicholus Njagi, a computer scientist and a political analyst who is a Mbeere resident, Muturi is Mbeere/Embu kingpin who has helped many people in the area.

Muturi was born in Kanyuambora in Mbeere North. After completing primary schooling, he joined Kangaru Boys High School and later University of Nairobi in 1978 to study law. He graduated with a Law degree in 1981. He then went to Kenya School of Law for a Post Graduate diploma in Law and was admitted as an advocate of the High court of Kenya in 1982.

In

2013, Muturi ran for the Mbeere North parliamentary seat as a member of The National Alliance, but lost to Muriuki Njagagua
who was running on APK party.

He served as a member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on the constitutional review from 1999 to 2004. He was elected KANU national organising secretary in Nov 2008 and was the Party of National Unity constitution committee chairman during the national constitutional talks from 2008 to 2010. In April 2011, he was appointed the chairman of the Centre for Multiparty Democracy, a civil society group that deals with democracy issues in multi-party politics.

Muturi was formerly a judiciary employee serving as a principal magistrate between 1982 and 1997 before retiring from judicial service. He also served as the chairman of the Judges and Magistrates Association during the time. He was a member of the Africa Parliamentarians Network Against Corruption, Global Organisation of Parliamentarians Against Corruption and the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank.

Accusation of bribery

In 1997, while serving as a magistrate in Nairobi, Muturi was accused of soliciting a bribe to rule in favour of Masaba Hospital founder Geoffrey Joel Momanyi and his wife Fellgona Akothe Momanyi in a case before him. Muturi was acquitted but did not resume his duties as a magistrate.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Muturi re-elected National Assembly Speaker". 31 August 2017.
  2. ^ "Doctor who 'finished' National Assembly Speaker Muturi's legal career dies".