Tabitha Mutinda: Women should not apologise for having ambition

• What the public doesn’t know is that Parliament is a 24-hour, 365-day competition space. It is also very dangerous and toxic.
• I would want to look back on my time in public life and know that I helped opened doors for young people and empowered women.

In the Senate, she holds the position of vice chairperson of the Finance and Budget Committee and easily stands out because of her exquisite fashion, signature crane hairdo and rarely misses taking a bite during explosive sessions on the floor alongside female colleagues who rise to the occasion, debating head-to-head with their male counterparts who always stir.

Being brought up as the last-born girl in a family of nine by a single mother in the hardy Athi River area enabled her to master the art of fighting hard for her space in the spirit of Darwinian theory of survival of the fittest. Senator Tabitha Mutinda speaks to Duncan Khaemba:

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