Mwirigi: I became MP to serve my people, not amass wealth
Igembe South MP John Paul Mwirigi receives a new car from President Kenyatta during a meeting with central Kenya leaders at Sagana State Lodge in Nyeri County in September. PHOTO | SAMUEL MIRING'U | NATION MEDIA GROUP
The newly elected MP had also boarded a matatu to Nairobi for his swearing-in.
He beat candidates with well-oiled and elaborate campaign machinery to inherit the seat previously held by current Meru Senator Mithika Linturi.
The young legislator had been driven to State House by Tharaka MP George Murugara and did not want to bother him or his colleagues anymore after the function and so he decided to walk.
At the end of the first Jubilee parliamentary group meeting at State House in Nairobi on August 30, three weeks after the general election, one thing stood out.
Mr John Paul Mwirigi, 23, who had just been elected MP for Igembe South, walked from State House to the city centre to board a matatu home because he did not own a car.
