In 1978, what appeared to be a contrived court process put paid to the political career of first woman MP in the Meru region barely three years after she was elected.
Anarita Karimi Njeru was no ordinary woman. Straight out of College of St Teresa, Winnona in Minnesota in 1971 with a Bachelor of Education degree, she settled down to teach at St Mary's Girls-Egoji, rising to position of headmistress.
At 34, she had resigned twice from that teaching job, and vied twice for the Meru Central parliamentary seat.
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