By AGGREY MUTAMBO amutambo@ke.nationmedia.com ( email the author)
Posted Friday, February 1 2013 at 13:54
Businesswoman Esther Passaris is the latest entrant in the race for Nairobi County women representative seat.
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) on Friday gave her the green light to contest on a Kenya National Congress (KNC) ticket.
Ms Passaris will compete against Rachel Shebesh of The National Alliance (TNA) and three others who were due to be cleared later Friday.
Although she had all the required documents, her birth certificate and the national ID card had different birth dates.
The certificate showed she was born on October 20, 1964 but the ID indicated she was born 10 days earlier.
This, she argued was a computer error by the registration of persons officials at Nyayo House and tabled a sworn affidavit that the correct date was October 20.
After she was cleared, Ms Passaris told reporters she was let down by Kenyans during her previous political endeavours, but still felt she had something to offer.
"I am a very strong woman, but Kenyans somehow managed to bring me down so I took a break," she said.
"I wanted to remain an activist but then I watched Peter Kenneth on TV."
Mr Kenneth is the presidential candidate on the Eagle coalition of which KNC is a partner.
"I am in this race for that woman in Kawangware who was thrown out of a moving matatu and run over."
"She did not deserve that. No one wants to talk about her. Who was she? Where is the law to protect women? " she posed holding back tears.
"I have paid bills for women at Kenyatta National Hospital who were detained there because they could not raise the money."
Ms Passaris lost the ODM nominations for the Embakasi parliamentary seat in 2007.
The seat was eventually won by the late Mugabe Were.
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