Ugunja MP Opiyo Wandayi's name hit news headlines in 2016 when he was ejected from Parliament for disrupting President Uhuru Kenyatta's state of the nation address by constantly blowing a whistle. It was until late that year that he was allowed back into the chambers.
The 46-year old lawmaker kick-started his political career in the 1990s. Then serving as a student leader at the University of Nairobi, Wandayi founded the Ford Kenya Youth League in 1994 and became its first Secretary General.
As the party was dogged with leadership wrangles pitting Raila Odinga and Wamalwa Kijana, Raila quit and formed the National Development Party ( NDP) in 1996 where Wandayi was a founder member.
Wandayi would later lead the party popularization drive in 1997 even as the outfit gained a huge following in the run to that year's election.
The firebrand young politician was also a key member of the struggle that called for electoral reforms in 1997.
With the banner, "No reforms, No elections", the then ruling party KANU finally yielded to pressure and the famous IPPG talks that year delivered an election which Wandayi said was somehow fair.
Though he took a political break for a successful professional development from 1998- 2012, Wandayi made a comeback in 2013 when he was elected MP for the newly-created Ugunja constituency. He was easily re-elected in 2017.
His election as Chairman of the crucial parliamentary Public Accounts Committee ( PAC) can attest to the fact that he is one of Raila's trusted foot soldiers.