As a young man growing up in the city’s Umoja Estate, his childhood dream was to serve the people as a pastor, but fate paved a different route.
“I wanted to be a man of God and my passion has always been to serve the people. But here I am today still serving the people in a different front,” Theuri, 35, told The Nairobian.
His journey to Parliament can be traced back to perceptions of unfairness by the notoriously brutal kanjo (city council askaris). After attaining his diploma in Theology, Theuri started off as a mitumba (second-hand clothes) trader in a tiny stall. He and his counterparts had many run-ins with the askaris, whose sad end was the demolition of the stalls on Umoja’s Moi Drive, where Theuri was based.
“When the askaris raided our businesses, we tried reaching the then area councillor in vain. That angered me and my colleagues and it is then that I felt the urge to defend the rights of the youth in Umoja I,” says Theuri.
He was subsequently elected Umoja I councillor in 2007, and was perceived to be a close ally of unsuccessful Embakasi parliamentary candidate John Ndirangu — a controversial former city mayor, who is now Embakasi Central MP (TNA). His closeness to Ndirangu even gave rise to rumours that they were father and son. It is something he still has to constantly clarify.
“This was a rumour started by my opponents. For the record, let it be known that I am George Theuri son to Atnus Mungai and Jane Wanjiru. Our family has no blood relation to Hon Ndirangu,” said Theuri
He was subsequently elected Umoja I councillor in 2007, and was perceived to be a close ally of unsuccessful Embakasi parliamentary candidate John Ndirangu — a controversial former city mayor, who is now Embakasi Central MP (TNA). His closeness to Ndirangu even gave rise to rumours that they were father and son. It is something he still has to constantly clarify.
His first three months as an MP have seen him grapple with endless demands and needs from constituents who usually flock his homestead in Umoja every day. He believes in transforming his constituency to the satisfaction of those who elected him without shouting too much about it.
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