From a shack to parliament, Kenya's slum MP pushes pro-poor agenda


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  • Tuesday, 25 Oct 2016

Kibera constituency's first parliamentarian, Kenneth Okoth, speaks during an interview with the Thomson Reuters Foundation in Kenya's capital Nairobi, October 24, 2016. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With human waste from a burst sewer oozing down the main street of Kenya's largest slum, annoyed residents have been bombarding the Facebook page of Kibera constituency's first parliamentarian, Kenneth Okoth, with insults.

"It's just been: 'Ken Okoth is good for nothing. He's terrible. What a loser. We will never vote for him again," the bespectacled 38-year-old former teacher laughed ruefully.

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