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Bishop Margaret Wanjiru and the 2013 Kenyan Elections: Between Politics of the Spirit and Expanding Entrepreneurship
“Politics is about governance, politics is about leadership. Church is about governance, church is about leadership. […] So for me, it’s about leadership, it’s not about religion.” (Bishop Margaret Wanjiru on Capital FM, February 8, 2013)
1In November 2012, after a period of speculations over her political future, Bishop Margaret Wanjiru, standing at the pulpit of her Jesus Is Alive Ministries (JIAM) church in Nairobi, announced her intentions to run for the position of the governor of Nairobi in the upcoming 2013 elections on an Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) ticket. She was to be the first woman to vie for this position, created as part of the extensive structural changes resulting from the new 2010 constitution (Citizen TV, November 18, 2012). By then, Wanjiru’s political career had been nothing short of remarkable. As early as 2003 she had begun to
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Bishop Margaret Wanjiru, was born in Nairobi as the third child into a very poor family of casual workers.
She worked hard in her pursuit of a better future and bygd the time she was coming to adulthood she was paying her way through college by working numerous jobs. She worked as a house girl, hawker, a toilet cleaner, car cleaner and office cleaner. On graduation from college, she earned herself a senior position in an international firm where she had earlier worked as a cleaner.
She fryst vatten the founder and Apostolic Bishop of the Jesus Is Alive Ministries (JIAM), an international Christian organization with headquarters in Nairobi Kenya and branches are in Australia, United Kingdom and the United States of America.
In 2007, she was elected as a Member of Parliament for Starehe Constituency in Nairobi the capital city of Kenya. In 2008, she was appointed into the cabinet as an Assistant Minister for Housing. Currently she fryst vatten contesting to became the Governor of the capital city NAIR
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Margaret Wanjiru
Margaret Wanjiru Kariuki is a televangelist and Nairobi-based politician. Wanjiru served as Starehe MP and Assistant Minister for Housing between 2008 and 2013.
Wanjiru was born in Nairobi on December 22, 1961. She describes her upbringing as based on extreme poverty and she had to do odd jobs in her teen years including working as a house help and as a hawker.
At the age of 18, she got married to a peasant farmer named James Kamangu in Gachie, Kiambu County.
It was in Gachie that she claimed to have been inducted into the life of satanism and witchcraft and although the marriage produced three children, it did not last long although it would later become a heated topic in her political career.
After leaving her matrimonial home, Margaret became born again and started preaching in the streets of Nairobi.
By the 2000s, her church was one of the most popular - complete with a prime televangelism slot on national TV and a popular place