Grace Monica Akech Onyango (26 June 1924 – 8 March 2023), popularly known as Nya'Bungu (Daughter of the Bush), was a Kenyan politician.
She launched a policy where, if a serving male employee of the council died, his wife or a female relative would be employed to replace him.
She advocated for this policy even at the top level, attending official functions with Phililia Olang, her predecessor's wife.
[3] She also Africanised Kisumu Town streets, naming them for key political leaders such as Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Paul Mbuya, and Milton Obote.
Onyango defeated Khan in the elections, marking the first time in post-independence politics that a woman had won a parliamentary seat in Kenya.
Of her career as a parliamentarian, Onyango told The Standard in July 2018 that she "...was the minority in Parliament, standing up against 158 male MPs.
When the committee chair, Elijah Mwangale tabled the report, she pointed out that it had been doctored at State House, by President Jomo Kenyatta himself prior to publication.
The original report contained the names of Mbiyu Koinange and Wanyoike Thungu, Jomo Kenyatta's aide and enforcer.