Naisula Lesuuda

[3][1][5] This in turn led to the founding of a number of other local peace organisations, supported by the Kenya government and USAid.

[3] In 2010, her work with this organisation led to her becoming the youngest Kenyan woman to win the presidential Order of the Grand Warrior.

[4][7][3] Lesuuda participated in President Uhuru Kenyatta's campaign in 2013,[8] and was then nominated on his TNA party ticket to represent Samburu County in the Senate in 2013, becoming its youngest female member.

In 2016, she announced that she would leave the Senate to seek election as a member of the National Assembly for Samburu West,[10] then in 2017 switching from the Jubilee to KANU party.

[13][14] When parliament sat in August 2017, she announced her intention to apply for the position of Deputy Speaker, but failed to submit her application before the vote.

Naisula Lesuuda (R) with Onofiok Luke , a lawyer and legislator, and with Kenyan Ambassador to Somalia, Yvonne Khamati (L), on the final day of the African Union Youth Pre-forum in Nairobi in September 2014.