Former member of parliament Chelagat Mutai is dead

Former firebrand politician Philomena Chelagat Mutai is dead. Chelagat died of a heart attack in a Nairobi hospital. Born in 1949 at Terige village in Lessos, Nandi county, Mutai, a political scientist, became the youngest MP ever in 1974. At only 24, she trounced 12 other candidates to become the country’s youngest legislator and the first woman MP from the Kalenjin community. Mutai rose to national limelight after the then attorney general Charles Njonjo named her as one of the "seven bearded sisters" in reference to a group whose fiery debates in parliament gave the Kanu government sleepless nights. In 1976, she was arrested and sentenced to six months in prison. She was accused of inciting her constituents to invade a sisal plantation at Ziwa. But even after serving the sentence and resuming her parliamentary seat, the government continued hounding her. Early in 1983, she was targeted for allegedly filing fake parliamentary mileage claims. To escape another jail term, she sought po

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