Kinoti Gatobu

Kenyan politician

Honourable Kinoti Gatobu MP

Member of the Kenyan Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office March 2013
Constituency	Buuri
Majority	15,793

Personal details
Born	c. 1986 (age 37–38) Kenya
Political party	Independent
Relations	Married
Residence	Meru
Alma mater	University of Nairobi (BCom)
Occupation	Freelance writer
Positions	Editor, Unique Homes Magazine^[1]
Nickname	Kijana (young man)

Boniface Kinoti Gatobu is a Kenyan politician who was elected as a member of the Kenyan Parliament in the 2013 parliamentary elections.^[2]^[3]

At 26, he was the youngest member of Kenya's 11th Parliament.^[4] When he was just 23 and fresh out of the university, Boniface rejected three job offers (and the six-figure salaries that went with them) to work in his Kibirichia Village as a primary school teacher on voluntary basis. His grandfather was a squatter. His father, Moses Gatobu, a secondary school teacher, went to a simple high school (Miathene) in Meru; and his mother, Agnes Kinya Gatobu, joined a diploma teacher training college after giving birth to Kinoti, leaving him in the care of his Aunt, Gladys Njiiru^{[citation needed]}. In 2017 December, he expressed his interest to vie for Gubernatorial seat in Meru County instead of parliamentary seat which he had held from 2013 to 2017. 3 days to national elections, he stepped down for his opponent, Governor Kiraitu Murungu. Currently, he does not serve in any governmental capacity. However, it is highly speculated that he is one of the president's advisors.

References

^ "Team: Unique Homes Magazine". Unique Homes Magazine. Archived from the original on 29 March 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
^ "The firsts in the Kenyan elections". safariafricaradio.com. 11 March 2013. Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
^ "You can't take this man out of the village". Daily Nation (Kenya). 12 December 2012. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
^ Kenya CitizenTV (2013-03-20), Kinoti Gatobu : Youngest MP Elect, retrieved 2017-11-23