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Ali Hassan Joho

Ali Hassan Joho is the current Governor of Mombasa County and the Orange Democratic Party deputy leader. He is serving his second and final 5-year term as governor of the coastal county.

Joho actively got into elective politics in 2007 when he won the Kisauni parliamentary seat after joining the Liberal Democratic Party in 2006 as the party’s chairman in the constituency.

Alfred Mutua

Dr. Alfred Nganga Mutua is serving his second and final term as the Governor of Machakos County.

He was reelected during the 2017 general elections on a Maendeleo Chap Chap Party ticket, a political party he founded in August 2016. In 2013, Mutua was sponsored to vie for the inaugural gubernatorial race by the Wiper Democratic Party.

Abdikadir Ismail

Abdikadir Ismail is the Principal of Mwangaza Muslim Mixed Day Secondary School, Kenya. Ismail's drive and determination as a teacher has seen him stand out from his peers and rise through the ranks.

After university, Abdikadir was posted in Baragoi, a hardship area prone to cattle rustling in Samburu County.  

Akelo Misori

Akelo Misori is the current Secretary-General for the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET). 

He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology & Religious studies from Kenyatta University in 2002, and a Diploma in Education from Siriba Teachers College (now Maseno University).

Benson Edagwa

Benson Edagwa, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), Omaha.

His long list of honors reads like a Christmas shopping list: