Anthony Kimani Ichung’wa, a seasoned debater and outspoken politician, is the current representative for the Kikuyu Constituency. He is also the Majority leader in the National Assembly and he has chaired several committees in parliament.
He will be leading the Bi-partisan talks proposed by President William Ruto to end the disputes between the opposition and the government.
Kimani Ichung’wa Age and Birthplace
Kimani Ichung’wa will be turning 47 in 2023. Many don’t believe that he has achieved so much based on his age.
Family Background
The lawmaker was raised in the Kikuyu Constituency’s Gikambura Village, Karai Location. He was one of 13 children and the second to last to be born. His parents worked incredibly hard to meet their fundamental necessities because they were not wealthy. Living in a home with a cement floor was one of his ambitions at the time.
Educational Background
The MP first attended Kikuyu Township Primary School before moving on to Alliance Boys High School. He gained experience at the national school since he interacted with many people from many regions of the nation. He was a senior prefect in charge of discipline and was elected house prefect.
He admired some of the nation’s greatest attorneys, including Gitobu Imanyara, and had a dream to practice law. He sadly fell two points short of the entry marks for law.
He completed his CPA1 at the Kenya College of Accounting (KCA) while he was waiting to enroll in university and later continued to Strathmore University to complete his accounting studies while still a student at the University of Nairobi
In 1996, he enrolled at the University of Nairobi to pursue studies in Bachelor of Arts in Economics and History. He earned an Economics honors degree from the university in 2000. He also pursued a diploma in Banking at the same time.
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Kimani Ichung’wa Career
He sent his resume to many banks after graduating from college, but he never heard back. Then he started working for a shoe business that his brother and several friends from Uganda had founded.
He would venture out and advertise the shoes in other locations. He applied for a position with Unilever, but after being rejected, he was hired by DiverseyLever, a division of the company.
Ichung’wa gave up his job and opened his own butcher shop two years later. On a piece of land his father gave him, he established his company’s facilities.
“For many years, my father worked as a butcher, and he owned land close to a potential bus stop. I pleaded with him to allow me a little plot so I could build a butcher shop. I told him I intended to resign from my job at the end of the year. I started my business since my dad was generous enough to provide me some room” he told the Daily Nation.
When he first started his butchery business, his buddies made fun of him, but that didn’t stop Ichungwa, who later opened two more meat shops.
“When I started my butchery business, some of my peers made fun of me.’With all of your education, the best you can do is manage the butcher shop your illiterate father ran.? They would repeatedly question me. However, Ichung’wa said, “I promised I would do it, and I did it.”
His search for a job continued, and he was fortunate to be summoned for two positions for which he had applied. Although Corn Products offered a greater salary, he chose Madison since it was closer to his butchery and would help him run his business more successfully.
He left the insurance company at the end of 2006 to work for Standard Media Group PLC as an accountant.