He suddenly went missing on a Saturday afternoon, and only later would Kenyans learn that he had been arrested by CID in Mombasa and dragged to Nairobi for questioning. His crime was allegedly ‘misusing a licensed communication gadget’. However, the truth would reveal itself that he was simply being bold enough to talk about corruption in Isiolo and Mandera. Previously, he had gone back to the history books and retrieved a damning report on ivory poaching in Kenya by the New Scientist Magazine dated 22 May 1975.
Mutai was born on Martin Luther King Jnr. Day in 1989. January 19, his birthday coincides with the historic day when Birmingham police unleashed terror on black children fighting the segregationist system. That aside. Mutai was born in a polygamous family. His father’s third and youngest wife bore a son, the only one.
He attended Primary Lelach Primary School in Bureti Constituency in Kericho County, then Kaplong Boys High School in Bomet County in between 2005 and 2008). His leadership qualities began showing early when he was named a school prefect in form 2 and 3, and went on to became his school’s captain in form four. He also had a prowess in sports by becoming the school’s handball team chairman. The team was ranked second best in Rift Valley province during his leadership.
When he was done with high school in 2008, he became the chair of Bureti Sikika Kenya, a youth-based organisation with membership drawn from university students from Bureti District, with education as their main agenda was education. When he joined Pwani University in 2010, he immediately involved himself amongst the drafters of the first students’ union constitution and got himself acquainted with Kenyan laws and student policies. From this, he was elected student leader from 2012 up until 2013.
Through his work around Pwani University, he became an Orange Democratic Movement’s youth executive member. In 2013, he quit ODM. He says, “I quit ODM after I realised that they won’t be able to help the common man.”
To hone his leadership skills, he has participated in the United Nations Leadership Training in Bujumbura, Burundi. He graduated from Pwani University in 2014 with a second class honors upper division in Commerce and Finance. Apart from being involved in the creation of numerous political and social formations around the country, lately, he has been an active participant in #MaskaniConversations a citizen’s platform meant to articulate social issues. He is a staunch defender of devolution.
Parting shot: “I am a human rights defender.... Blogger and a political commentator on governance and leadership. I am a proud Kalenjin”.
Is Abraham Mutai an #EnemyOfTheStateKE?
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