Entrepreneur Tabitha Mukami Muigai-Karanja, the founder and CEO of Keroche Breweries Limited, are among the Nakuru County aspirants who appeared before the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) for clearance yesterday.
However, the UDA Senatorial nominee now known as Tabitha Karanja Keroche was not cleared by the IEBC for failing to carry crucial documents to the meeting.
Here’s her statement after visiting the IEBC:
“Visited the IEBC Nakuru County office but Unknowingly I forgot two important documents which are Crucial for clearance:
1. I wrote a bankers cheque with an amount meant for male senatorial candidates instead of female category.
2. I forgot to carry my UDA Nomination Certificate which is in my custody”
According to her, the IEBC gave her another chance to comply before the end of Tuesday, May 31.
“However I’m given appointment for tomorrow morning. Thank you all for your support and prayers,” she concluded.
Change of name
Earlier in April, the businesswoman changed her name to Tabitha Karanja Keroche.
In a sworn affidavit, Karanja said she’ll use the new name “for all purposes”.
Her new name was revealed via a Gazette Notice Number 4013 dated April 8, 2022.
“Notice is given that by a deed poll dated February 15, 2022, duly executed and registered in the Registry of Documents at Nairobi as Presentation No. 2921, in Volume Dl, Folio 102/794, File No. MMXXII, by our client, Tabitha Karanja Keroche, of P.O. Box 6-20117, Naivasha in the Republic of Kenya, formerly known as Tabitha Mukami Mungai.
“She has formally and absolutely renounced and abandoned the use of her former name Tabitha Mukami Mungai, and in lieu thereof assumed and adopted the name Tabitha Karanja Keroche, for all purposes and authorises and requests all persons at all times to designate, describe and address her by her assumed name Tabitha Karanja Keroche only,” said the notice.
