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Hon. He knows people.

Each ran to the DO’s office to report that the “timber madman” was at his home and that the chief was not party to that visit.

At the national level, he came to be known as Jaramogi Oginga Odinga’s pointman in the early 1990s and later his son’s Raila Odinga’s.

To further frustrate chiefs’ work, Mpuru Aburi, whose father died when he was only three years old, vied for the local Mikinduri councillor’s seat in 1992 and won on a Ford Kenya ticket in the then DP zone.

The MP, one of the two ODM MPs in the entire Mt Kenya region, is a classic example of going against the grain, and most often failing and being satisfied with it.

“I don’t follow people.

I love them both. He garnered more than 16,000 votes, with his closest rival Jacob Mati garnering close to 12,000 votes.

In the National Assembly he is a member of Departmental Committee on Lands and Natural Resources and Departmental Committee on Energy, Communications and Information from March 2013.

Lawrence Mpuru Aburi has spoken 87 times in Parliament since March 2013 until April 2016.

Lawrence Mpuru Aburi education Background

Lawrence Mpuru Aburi attended Mutiwa Primary School after which he joined Thika Academy in 1979.

Lawrence Mpuru Aburi Political Career

In 1992 Mpuru Aburi vied for the local Mikinduri councillor’s seat and won on  a Ford Kenya ticket in the then DP zone.

He also contested for the Tigania East Constituency seat in 2002, he lost to Peter Munya, now Meru Governor, with 130 votes.

He led his first heckling squad in a 1980 rally in Thika.

“I heckled Zachary Gakunju when they were fighting with Ngengi Muigai. However, the two just resemble each other, with probably no blood relation between them.

Senator Kiraitu Muringi, speaking in Mikinduri in Mpuru Aburi’s constituency said: “The first time I met him, I thought he was a Luo because he looked like one.

Abdi Mpuru is currently serving a second term in Parliament after being successfully voted in 2022. When not cutting trees and selling timber, he would have some of them sacked.

If he wanted a chief sacked, Mpuru Aburi would drive his rickety pick-up into a chief’s home, ride on the back and start chewing miraa.

The information would fly into Mikinduri divisional headquarters that chief so-and-so has hosted Mpuru and has been bribed to keep him in the timber business.

At least two chiefs were sacked this way as former Internal Security minister Jackson Kalweo sought to protect his region from dissent.

Two other chiefs got wind of Mpuru Aburi’s uninvited visit to their homes.

It is gratifying to be called out by a big and famous man,” he says with a chuckle.

Lawrence Mpuru Aburi joins Jubilee Coalition

Mpuru Aburi had in recent times shown political disconnect with ODM, the party that sponsored him to parliament, claiming ‘if you can’t beat them join them’ when he pledged to work with the Jubilee government alongside another Meru ODM legislator, Kubai Iringo of Igembe Central.

“There is a time for politics and development, this is the time for development and we do not need to keep singing ODM, ODM, ODM whereas we were defeated, If you cant beat them, join them and that’s why I decided to work with the government and attain development for my people”, Aburi said at a fundraising in Meru in a meeting that Ruto was the Chief Guest.

Lawrence Mpuru Aburi allegedly buys a chopper

In 2013, There were rumours in parliament especially from ODM MPs that Mpuru Aburi was buying a private chopper.

At least, he calls me by my name. For this, he was rewarded with a nomination to Meru County Council in 1998.

“Raila is like my brother. He doesn’t seem to know people and just passes them,” says Aburi.

Even when Raila joined Kibaki in 2002, Mpuru Aburi did not join Narc. Mpuru Aburi wanted to ODM Party Chairmanship. And he, too, loves me.

His father loved me. Between 2017 and 2022, he served as a Member of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA).