Edwin Sifuna

Sifuna started his formal education at Kakamega Township Primary School and later on joined Musingu High School, where he sat his KCSE exams. Thereafter, he pursued a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Nairobi, graduating in 2006. After receiving his postgraduate diploma from the Kenya School of Law in 2007, Sifuna did his pupilage at Kairu & McCourt Advocates in Nairobi and was thereafter admitted to the Roll of Advocates in 2008. ==Political career==

In 2013, Sifuna became a member of CORD as a Technical/Advisory Committee Member for three years before joining NASA in the same capacity. In the 2017 Kenyan general election, Edwin Sifuna expressed his interest to vie for the Kanduyi Constituency Member of Parliament seat on an ODM Party ticket. He was, however, not successful during the primaries in April where he lost to John Makali. With only about two months to the general elections in August, ODM fronted Sifuna as their preferred candidate to contest the Nairobi senatorial seat then held by Mike Sonko. He polled 674,056 votes (42.51%) against winner Johnson Sakaja who got 811,826 votes (51.20%). On 23 February 2018, Sifuna was picked as the Secretary-General of ODM party to replace Ababu Namwamba. On 11 February 2026, he was removed as Secretary General by the National Executive Committee (NEC) in absentia. Sifuna petitioned to the Political Parties Disputes Tribunal (PPDT), which on 12 February, ruled to temporarily prevent the Orange Democratic Movement from executing his removal. In 2019, he was elected to serve as the vice-chair of the Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD). Senate In the 2022 Kenyan general election, Sifuna once again contested the Nairobi Senatorial seat. He garnered 716,876 to clinch the seat and is now serving the people of Nairobi as their senator. In February 2023, he assumed the role of deputy minority whip in the Senate. ==Personal life==

Edwin Sifuna was born on 22 May 1982, at St. Mary's Hospital in Mumias, Kakamega County. His father was a civil servant with the defunct Municipal Council and his mother, a now-retired teacher from Moi Primary School in Bungoma. He has two brothers and two sisters. He is married and has a daughter. ==References==