Purity Wangui Ngirici is the Kirinyaga Women Representative elected on a Jubilee Party ticket.
Ngirici is serving her first term and was elected in last years (2017) general election.
The vocal Kirinyaga Women Rep has been hitting headlines over alleged political confrontations between her and Governor Anne Waiguru.
Ngirici and Waiguru are reported to have fallen out after the 2017 general election.
Ngirici is considered as Deputy President William Ruto’s close ally and confidant.
Here are facts you didn’t know about the vocal and flamboyant Kirinyaga Women Representative.
1. Year of Birth
Ngirici was born in 1978 and raised in Kirinyaga County.
2. Married
She is married to businessman Andrew Ngirici and the two are blessed with three children.
3. Graduate
She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from a London University.
She is currently pursuing her Master’s Degree in Human Resource at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology (JKUAT).
5. Business woman
Ngirici is an established business woman with interests in real estate, mining, farming and infrastructure.
6. Charity
Ngirici runs several charity programmes in Kirinyaga that aims to uplift the living standards of women and young people.
7. Politics
She joined politics in 2017 winning the Kirinyaga Women Rep seat on a Jubilee ticket. Ngirici was the talk of the town as she mounted multi-billion political campaigns. Ngirici’s husband Andrew was her chief campaigner in 2017.
The Kirinyaga Women Rep says her agenda is to uplift and better the living standards of Kirinyaga people with a focus on young people, women and persons living with disabilities.
Political pundits says that Ngirici is among key Mt Kenya politicians who will have a big influence in the 2022 succession politics.