Salim Mvurya

Salim Mvurya has 17 years of social development and leadership experience. In the year 2008, he was appointed to be the Acting Country Director for Plan Kenya. Other organizations he has worked for include the Aga Khan Foundation and Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development (an institute of Egerton University). Some of the programs he implemented were funded by DFID, USAID, Ministries of Foreign Affairs in Netherlands and Finland, and NORAD, Norway.

In the 2013 general elections, Mvurya ran for Kwale governorship on an ODM ticket with Fatuma Achani as his running mate.^[5] His rivals were James Dena, Kassima Rigga Mambo, Simeon Mwero Mkalla and Mwarapayo Mohammed Mwachai. Mvurya won by more than half the votes cast.

In May 2014, Mvurya ousted Nairobi governor Evans Kidero to become vice chairman of the Council of Governors.

On 29 September 2014 while at a rally with Raila Odinga in Kinango, Mvurya and Odinga were attacked by an elderly man who hit them on their backs with a stick. The security detail at the rally quickly subdued the man who was later released after it was established that he was mentally unstable.^[6]

After several months of speculation, Mvurya announced in September 2016 that he was leaving ODM and that he would run on a Jubilee Alliance ticket in the 2017 general elections.^[7] His deputy, Fatuma Achani, cited interference from other county chiefs in Kwale politics. Rumors claimed that senior officers in ODM had conspired to deny him the 2017 ODM ticket for his refusal to be loyal and working with Jubilee.^{[citation needed]}

On 30 August 2017,^[8] Kenya's Council of Governors agreed to elect Mvurya as the council's Chairman.^[9]

After two terms as governor, Mvurya was replaced in the next election when his deputy, Fatuma Achani, was elected governor in 2022.^[5] She had been endorsed by Mvurya and their party and she was sworn in by Lady Justice Olga A. Sewe.^[10]