Anne Waiguru

Anne Mumbi Waiguru, EGH, (born 16 April 1971) is the second Governor of Kirinyaga County in Kenya, who has been in office since 22 August 2017.

[6] She is behind the establishment of Huduma Centres, places where Kenyan citizens can access government services more efficiently in their respective counties.

Upon her re-election, Waiguru said that her focus would now be ensuring that all devolved functions and subsequent resources are fully handed over to the county governments.

[15] Waiguru was the director of the Integrated Financial Management and Information System (IFMIS), and Head of Governance at the National Treasury.

[3] WTC President Mwai Kibaki honoured Waiguru with an Order Grand Warrior[16] title due to her exemplary performance at the Information System and Integrated Financial Management.

She has also undertaken healthcare reforms, transport, and infrastructure upgrades and is developing an industrial park to manufacture local produce.

She has implemented a social economic empowerment program dubbed Wezesha Kirinyaga, that focuses on four value chains namely poultry, dairy, avocado and tomatoes.

The dairy, avocado, and tomato projects focus on the establishment of processing factories with an aim of adding value to agricultural produce.

Waiguru was declared winner of the hotly contested race between her and Woman representative Purity Ngirici after garnering 113,088 votes.