Hon. Naisula Lesuuda is currently trending on X formally known as Twitter as the most-performing female MP in Kenya.
She is being praised for being beauty with brains, eloquent, and a good performer.
She has been in the office for only 14 months, and she has already gained people’s attention from her fantastic job.
Lesuuda was born in 1984, 30th April in Samburu County, and graduated from Daystar University with a degree in communications and community development.
She is a mum of 2 beautiful daughters and has worn the award of the International Labour Organization Wedge Award for Outstanding Professional Woman, 2011.
She is not just an ordinary MP, she has worked in the journalism field actually in a big broadcasting company, KBC so when it comes to communicating with her people it is not a problem.
She is an interesting individual, she is the first young woman to win the presidential Order of the Grand Warrior.
In 2013 she left the job that she was working for and founded Peace Foundation which advocates for the education of girls and for the eradication of female genital mutilation and early child marriages.
She was also the youngest member of the TNA which was led by the former president Hon. Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta in which she was nominated as the woman to represent Samburu County Senate.
She was then elected as the vice chair of the Kenyan Women’s Parliamentary Association in which she left in 2017 to seek election as a member of the National Assembly of Samburu West.
Even though she switched parties from Jubilee to KANU she still supported Uhuru Kenyatta all the way.
In 2017 she won the elections by defeating Jonathan Lelelit which earned her the first ever female representative in that constituency.
She was re-elected in the same position in the 2022 general election.
BY WAMBUI FAITH