Wanjiru Loses Starehe Seat

Housing Assistant Minister, Margaret Wanjiru has lost her Starehe parliamentary seat. The election court sitting at Milimani nullified Wanjiru�s 2007 election following a successful petition by former MP, Maina Kamanda. High court judge, Kihara Kariuki, however, rejected Kamanda�s application to be declared outright winner of the election. Wanjiru, who ran on an ODM ticket, becomes the latest Member of Parliament to be sent packing by the election court, in yet another indication that the massive irregularities in the 2007 general election were not limited to the disputed presidential race.