She was the rank outsider.
A businesswoman and preacher who became Meru Woman Rep in 2017, Kawira Mwangaza was roundly ignored and mocked when she voiced her ambition to run for governor.
For the Bishop was going to war with incumbent governor Kiraitu Murungi, the Harvard University-trained lawyer-politician with a rumbling laugh who made his bones battling President Daniel Arap Moi when the woman rep had nary a pebble on her chest.
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