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Wavinya Ndeti
Wavinya Ndeti EGH (born 8 November 1967) is a Kenyan politician and a business woman who is serving as the 2nd Governor of Machakos County.[2] She previously served as a member of parliament for the Kathiani Constituency in the 10th Kenyan parliament and an assistant minister in the ministry of youth affairs and sport from 2008 to 2013. She was the first woman to be elected as a member of parliament in Machakos county since independence. She was a CCU candidate in 2013 and WDM-K candidate in 2017 for Machakos Governor. Education background
Political historyNdeti joined politics in 2007 contesting and being elected MP for the Kathiani Constituency under Chama Cha Uzalendo. She had previously participated in the ODM-Kenya primaries, which she claimed were rigged in favor of incumbent legislator Peter Kyalo Kaindi, forcing her to switch to Chama Cha Uzalendo. She eventually won a landslide victory, garnering 28,178 votes against Kaindi’s 9,813.[3] In winning the seat, Ndeti became the only woman to have represented the constituency in Parliament since independence. Ndeti was appointed to a grand coalition government as a Co-assistant Minister for Youth and Sports under Helen Sambili. During the 2010 constitutional referendum she supported the new constitution, citing the importance of having a uniform distribution of resources and having decentralized leadership. Although the document was unpopular in the Machakos District, the majority of Kenyans voted in favour of the new constitution, which President Mwai Kibaki promulgated on 27 August 2010. 2013 and 2017 electionsNdeti, one of the founding members of CORD,[4] ran for the newly created office of Governor of Machakos on a CCU ticket in 2013. She picked former Water and Natural Resources minister Mutua Katuku as her running mate. She lost the bid to Alfred Mutua and subsequently lost the election petition on grounds she failed to appoint enough party agents to all polling stations. In 2017, Ndeti and Makueni governor Kivutha Kibwana pledged to rejoin Wiper Democratic Movement under a brokered agreement known as the Emali Declaration. In the declaration, Kibwana was to defend his seat on the Wiper Democratic Movement and Ndeti would be given a direct ticket to unseat Mutua. Wiper Democratic Movement-KenyaNdeti ditched Chama Cha Uzalendo for Wiper on the morning of 5 April 2017, in line with the law that requires candidates to change political parties within 90 days of an election. Initially, she was handed direct nomination with Peter Mathuki as running mate, but the party decided to hold primaries. The deal had been a product of months of negotiations between the Wiper Party and Ndeti's CCU party, with Kalonzo said to have prevailed upon Mathuki and Machakos Deputy Governor Bernard Kiala to compromise their ambitions in favour of a ticket that would send Mutua home and win back the seat to the party.[5] Muthama, the incumbent senator, announced that he would not defend his seat in the 2017 Kenya general elections on the Wiper ticket.[6] This led to the WDM-K NEB awarding a direct nomination to former Machakos County Secretary for Education Jackson Kala[7] to represent the party in the Senate election. Ndeti was cleared to run for governor by the IEBC in early June 2017. Ndeti on 9 June challenged the ruling at the High Court.[8] High Court Judge George Vincent Odunga stayed the IEBC tribunal decision. On 14 June 2017, the judge rejected a petition by the IEBC to disqualify himself.[9] Kiala decided to run as an independent. Chief administrative secretary - Ministry Of TransportNdeti was appointed as chief administrative secretary for the State Department for Public Works and also State Department for Shipping and Maritime in the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing, Urban Development and Public Works on Tuesday, 14 January 2020 by President Uhuru Kenyatta following a reshuffle and new appointments of chief administrative secretaries. As the chief administrative secretary for public works, she is responsible in providing policy direction and coordinating all matters related to construction, rehabilitation and maintenance of public buildings and other public works. In discharging its functions, the state department is guided by detailed mandate through Executive Order No. 1/2016 notably;
Also, in the state Department of Shipping and Maritime, she is responsible in spearheading the following strategic objectives;
Ndeti holds a master's degree in business systems analysis and design from The City University London, a master's in business administration from Heriot-Watt University in UK and a bachelor's degree in computer science from South Bank University UK. She has a vast experience in public sector management. Among other trainings, Ndeti has attended a conference of Africa’s Great Women in decision making in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai, where she was elected the vice president to represent East Africa Region. She joins the ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing, Urban Development and Public Works from the Kenya Water Institute (KEWI the center of excellence in training, research, consultancy and outreach for the water and related sectors where she was the chair Governing Council since 7 February 2019. CAS Ndeti has also previously served as a member of parliament for the Kathiani Constituency in the 10th Kenyan parliament. She was the first and so far only woman to have represented the constituency since independence. CAS Ndeti was appointed to a grand coalition government as a Co-assistant Minister for Youth and Sports. She was a Wiper Democratic Movement -Kenya candidate for Machakos governor in 2017 where she garnered over 209,000 votes in a disputed poll which saw the incumbents election initially overturned at the Court of Appeal. The petition was ultimately decided at the Supreme Court in favor of Alfred Mutua. Key achievementsSome of Ndeti's Key achievements are:
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