Martha Karua

Quick Facts

Full Name	Martha Karua
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Sep 22, 1957(1957-09-22)
Age	67
Birthplace	Kirinyaga County
Country	Kenya
Horoscope	Virgo

Martha Karua Biography

Martha Karua is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on September 22, 1957 in Kirinyaga County, Kenya. Kenyan politician well-known for her stint as Minister of Justice, National Cohesion, and Constitutional Affairs as well as the Minister of Water Resources Management and Development. She is also famous for being an earlier Member of the Kenyan Parliament who represented Gichugu Constituency. Gichugu Constituency.

She was chosen as minister of Water Resources Management and Development by the then president She was selected as Minister of Water Resources Management and Development by then serving president Mwai Kibaki in 2003. in 2003.

Martha Wangari Karua (/w æ n ˈ ɡ ɑː r i k ə ˈ r aʊ / ; born 1957) is a Kenyan politician and an advocate of social Justice. She is a former long-standing member of parliament for the Gichugu Constituency and an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. She was Minister of Justice until resigning from that position in April 2009. Karua has consistently fought for the protection of women’s rights and improvements to the democratic process.

She attended Kabare Girls Boarding School and Kiburia Girls Secondary School before passing her East African School Certificate at Karoti Girls High School in Kirinyaga County. She studied law at the University of Nairobi from 1977 to

1980. Between 1980 and 1981 she was enrolled at the Kenya School of Law for the statutory post graduate law course that is a prerequisite to admission to the Kenyan roll of advocates and licensing to practice law in Kenya.

Born in Kirinyaga District of Kenya’s Central Province of Kenya. She then grew up in the town of Kimunye.

Martha Karua Net Worth

Martha Karua is one of the richest Politician from Kenya. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Martha Karua 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She completed her law studies in The University of Nairobi and later went to Kenya School of Law. Kenya School of Law for her postgraduate degree.

She was acknowledged by Human Rights Watch as a human rights monitor due to the work she did with females in Kenya. She also received with the Legal Practitioners Due Diligence Award in 1999 by the Law Society of Kenya.

The daughter of Jackson Karue and his wife, Martha Karua was born on 22 September 1957 in Kirinyaga District in the Central Province of Kenya. Brought up in the village of Kimunye in the Gichugu Constituency, she is the second child in a family of eight, four girls and four boys.

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In 1998, Karua declined the position of Shadow Minister for Culture and Social Services which conflicted with her position of National Secretary for Constitutional Affairs (an elected office) that made her the official spokesperson on legal matters of the party. She opted to resign her position as the National Secretary.

Facts & Trivia

Martha Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Kenya. Martha Karua celebrates birthday on September 22 of every year.

Karua gained attention after she and a Catholic priest, Fr. Dominic Wamugunda, were carjacked and robbed on 6 December 2003 late at night while en route to her house in Wamugunda’s car. She said in Parliament upon being questioned by MPs that she was under no obligation to provide any explanation for why she was in Wamugunda’s car or what she was doing at the time of the carjacking. Her security guards were not present when the crime occurred; Karua said that when she did not feel she needed the guards, she did not use them. Karua is a divorcee, including at the time of her reported association with Wamugunda.