Sabina Wanjiru Chege (born 22 August 1978) is a Kenyan politician and former television actress and radio presenter who is a member of the Kenyan Parliament.
Sabina Wanjiru Chege attended Our Lady Consolata Mugoiri Girls High School in Murang'a County,[1] and thereafter the Kenya Institute of Management and the University of Nairobi where she obtained a Bachelor of Education degree and a master's degree in communication.[2] Prior to entering politics she was an actress in the television soap Tausi where she played the role of Rehema. She subsequently worked as a radio presenter on Coro FM and in radio management at Kameme FM and Kenya Broadcasting Corporation.[3] She is married with three children.[4]
Political career
She was elected to the National Assembly as a women's representative for Muranga County in 2013 with 96.6% of the vote. She was a member of the National Alliance party. In the 2017 general election, she was re-elected, now as a member of the Jubilee Party. The Jubilee party was formed in 2016 as a successor to the Jubilee Alliance, a coalition of several political parties including Chege's National Alliance party.[5] In her first term in parliament she was chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Education, Research & Technology and a member of the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee. Since 2017 she has served as chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Health.[6][7]
In 2019 she sponsored the Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service Bill which commercialised blood transfusions and created a new national body to coordinate blood donations nationally. This move was criticised by the Kenya National Union of Medical Laboratory Officers.[8] She also sponsored the Breastfeeding Mothers Bill that would require employers to provide facilities and breaks for employees who were breastfeeding.[9]
She was succeeded by Beatrice Njeri Maina in the 2022 Kenyan General elections for the Murang'a Women Rep position.[10] She had declared an interest in becoming the running-mate for Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto in the 2022 presidential election.[11] She then supported Raila Odinga.
In May 2023, she pledged allegiance to President William Ruto.[12] for disloyalty, former present Uhuru Kenyatta expelled her from the Jubilee party.[13]
^Data Report of 2017 Elections(PDF). Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission. April 2020. Archived(PDF) from the original on 15 September 2020. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
^Data Report of 2013 Elections(PDF). Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission. 30 March 2013. Archived(PDF) from the original on 15 September 2020. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
