Maina Wanjigi, Kamukunji’s five-term Member of Parliament (MP) and a long-serving Cabinet minister, died on Friday in Nairobi. In 2003, Mr Wanjigi’s dream, which he had publicly proclaimed 30 years earlier, was fulfilled: free primary education for a Kenyan child after the third president, Mwai Kibaki, implemented the idea. It is about time somebody got the message that we want free primary education. Let every child in this country be entitled to at least eight years of free primary education,” he had told the parliament in 1973. Maina Wanjigi, who, at one time, also served as Minister of Public Works and Housing, was born on October 7, 1931, in Wahudura village, Murang’a County.
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