{"id":31278,"date":"1974-11-06T06:52:18","date_gmt":"1974-11-06T03:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gicinga.com\/?p=31278"},"modified":"1974-11-06T06:52:18","modified_gmt":"1974-11-06T03:52:18","slug":"kihika-kimani-sworn-in-as-mp-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/kihika-kimani-sworn-in-as-mp-1974\/","title":{"rendered":"Kihika Kimani sworn in as MP, 1974"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hon. Dixon Kihika Kimani being sworn as MP representing Bahati North in November 1974. Kihika Kimani had been elected on a KANU ticket and served until 1979. He, however, was to leave KANU after Moi took over as president saying he &#8220;found it rough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>The 1974 elections had been <\/b>on 14 October 1974. Kenya was a de facto <a title=\"One-party state\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/One-party_state\">one-party state<\/a> at that time with the <a title=\"Kenya African National Union\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kenya_African_National_Union\">Kenya African National Union (KANU)<\/a> being the only political party to participate in the election.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31236\" style=\"width: 1423px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31236\" class=\"wp-image-31236 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Kihika-Kimani-being-sworn-in-on-November-6-1974.jpg\" alt=\"Kihika Kimani being sworn in as MP in 1974\" width=\"1413\" height=\"985\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Kihika-Kimani-being-sworn-in-on-November-6-1974.jpg 1413w, https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Kihika-Kimani-being-sworn-in-on-November-6-1974-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Kihika-Kimani-being-sworn-in-on-November-6-1974-1024x714.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Kihika-Kimani-being-sworn-in-on-November-6-1974-768x535.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1413px) 100vw, 1413px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1413px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1413\/985;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-31236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Kihika Kimani being sworn in as MP for Nakuru North on November 6 1974<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Having joined the Democratic Party (DP) led by former president Mwai Kibaki, he was reelected in 1992 to represent the people of Laikipia West Constituency.<\/p>\n<p>He was elected for his final term in 1997 this time in Molo Constituency. He died in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>The late Kihika Kimani is the father of the second Nakuru County Senator, <a href=\"https:\/\/gicinga.com\/susan-kihika-biography-life-story\/\">Hon. Susan Kihika<\/a>. He holds a record of having been elected in three different constituencies.<\/p>\n<p>#NakuruHistory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hon. Dixon Kihika Kimani being sworn as MP representing Bahati North in November 1974. Kihika Kimani had been elected on a KANU ticket and served until 1979. He, however, was to leave KANU after Moi took over as president saying he &#8220;found it rough.&#8221; The 1974 elections had been on 14 October 1974. Kenya was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,55],"tags":[52,54,56],"class_list":["post-31278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nakuru-history","category-nakuru-photos","tag-bahati-north","tag-kihika-kimani","tag-susan-kihika","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}