Francis Mwanzia Nyenze | |
Term Start: | 1997 |
Term End: | 2017 |
Office2: | Minister for Environment |
Term Start2: | 1997 |
Term End2: | 2001 |
President2: | Daniel arap Moi |
Office3: | Minister for Heritage and Sports |
Term Start3: | 2001 |
Term End3: | 2002 |
President3: | Daniel arap Moi |
Office4: | Leader of the Minority Party in the National Assembly |
Term Start4: | 2013 |
Term End4: | 2017 |
President4: | Uhuru Kenyatta |
Birth Date: | 2 June 1957 |
Birth Place: | Kitui, Kenya Colony |
Death Place: | Nairobi, Kenya |
Nationality: | Kenyan |
Party: | WDM-K |
Spouse: | Edith Nyenze |
Children: | 3 |
Francis Mwanzia Nyenze (June 2, 1957 – December 6, 2017) was a Kenyan politician who served as Member of Parliament for Kitui West Constituency from 1997 to 2002 and again from 2013 to 2017. He served as Minister for Environment from 1997 until 2001 and Minister for Heritage and Sports from 2001 to 2002. He also served as the Leader of Minority in the National Assembly in the 11th Parliament of Kenya from 2013 to 2017.[1] He passed on at The Nairobi Hospital after battling colon cancer for close to a decade.[2]
Nyenze was born in Kyondoni village, Kabati in the present day Kitui County.[1] His father the late Reverend Philip Nyenze Mwambu was a renowned Africa Inland Church minister.[3]