This archive report was first published on 29 September 2019.
Published on September 29, 2019, Westlands Member of Parliament Timothy Wanyonyi has spoken out about the challenges he faced after being shot and left with a disability in 1998.
Wanyonyi, a former director of the Kenyan Paraplegic Organization, was working at his brother Moses Wetangula's law firm when the incident occurred.
He recounted how the firm withdrew all his clients and files, leaving him idle for over a year.
‘In the office where I was working, they withdrew all my clients, they withdrew all the files. I could go to the office and sit there idly. For several days, in fact, for more than a year, I was in that office doing absolutely nothing,' Wanyonyi recalled in an interview with Citizen TV.
Wanyonyi confronted his brother, who claimed the firm was trying to protect him from work stress.
‘Later on when I confronted my employer, who is my elder brother, I told him I don’t like what was going on. Then he told me ‘you know, I’m trying to protect you,’” the MP narrated.
Wanyonyi's experience took a toll on his personal life, with him becoming hostile to his wife during that period.
However, with the support of his wife and therapy, Wanyonyi was able to turn his life around and eventually founded his own law firm.
He went on to vie for the Westlands Parliamentary seat and won on an ODM ticket.
Wanyonyi has since declared his interest in running for the governorship of Nairobi in 2022, marking the end of his elective politics career.
