Kenya's by-election won with Sh5 ‘kobole’ shower

Andrew Kimani Ngumba (R) and Dr Waiyaki Munyua former Kenya foreign affairs minister

Mathare hosts places like Kisumu Ndogo, Kwa Nyang’ao, Kosovo and Jangili and has had an equally colourful retinue of parliamentarians.

The longest serving area parliamentarian was Dr Munyua Waiyaki, who had four uninterrupted terms from 1963, when he was among the less than five black couples invited to uhuru celebrations alongside lawyer SM Otieno and wife Wambui Otieno, coincidentally, Waiyaki’s sister.