Edwin Sifuna Watenya

Edwin Watenya Sifuna (born 22 May 1982) is a Kenyan politician and the current Senator of Nairobi County after being elected in the 2022 Kenyan general election. He served as the deputy minority whip in the Senate of Kenya. He served as the Secretary General of the ODM party from 2018 to 9 July 2026.

Political career

In 2013, Sifuna became a member of CORD as a Technical/Advisory Committee Member for three years before joining NASA in the same capacity. In the 2017 Kenyan general election, Edwin Sifuna expressed his interest to vie for the Kanduyi Constituency Member of Parliament seat on an ODM Party ticket. He was, however, not successful during the primaries in April where he lost to John Makali.

With only about two months to the general elections in August, ODM fronted Sifuna as their preferred candidate to contest the Nairobi senatorial seat then held by Mike Sonko. He polled 674,056 votes (42.51%) against winner Johnson Sakaja who got 811,826 votes (51.20%).

In 2019, he was elected to serve as the vice-chair of the Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD).

On 23 February 2018, Sifuna was picked as the Secretary-General of ODM party to replace Ababu Namwamba. On 11 February 2026, he was removed as Secretary General by the National Executive Committee (NEC) in absentia. Sifuna petitioned to the Political Parties Disputes Tribunal (PPDT), which on 12 February, ruled to temporarily prevent the Orange Democratic Movement from executing his removal. After months of political tussle for the position, the Registrar of Political Parties John Cox Lorionokou, on 9 July said that his removal followed the Political Parties Act (Cap 7D) and ODM's constitution. This effectively removed him from the position.

Senate In the 2022 Kenyan general election, Sifuna once again contested the Nairobi Senatorial seat. He garnered 716,876 to clinch the seat and is now serving the people of Nairobi as their senator. In February 2023, he assumed the role of deputy minority whip in the Senate.

Personal life Edwin Sifuna was born on 22 May 1982, at St. Mary's Hospital in Mumias, Kakamega County. His father was a civil servant with the defunct Municipal Council and his mother, a now-retired teacher from Moi Primary School in Bungoma. He has two brothers and two sisters. He is married and has a daughter.