Michael Wamalwa was born to an aristocratic family in the vear 1944. His enviabe ranks through various schools and colleges was more a reflection of individual brilliance than family resources. But after getting a good education at Chewoyet, Strathmore, Cambridge, and the London School of economics, he enterred the Kenya parliament and stagnated in the back benches for almost twenty years.
It took the return of multi partyism for his skills to become noticeable, and as fate would have it, he found himself as the man of the moment in the prelude to the historic 2002, elections that heralded a new political dispensation.
Fortunately, he jumped the right way, and although he died just a few months after taking office as Kenya's 8th Vice president, his legacy of selflessness lives on.