Fatuma Gedi

Fatuma Gedi is a Kenyan politician from Wajir town. A former member of the National Assembly from Wajir county. The former Women representative for Wajir county. In 2017 she won the seat through Party for development and reform, under the reign of the fourth president of the Republic of Kenya, Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta.

She lost her seat after 2022 Kenya general election to Fatuma Abdi Jehow, a member of Orange Democratic Movement (ODM).

Early life and education Fatuma Gedi, a daughter of Mzee Gedi Ali. She lost her dad on 27th Sunday December 2020. Gedi was born in 1988 in Wajir town, in the North Eastern part of Kenya. She completed her secondary education in 2004.

The North Eastern part of Kenya is mostly inhabited by the Somalis who are bound by strong cultural and ethnically practices. Politics is projected as a mostly men field, leaving women in the shadows.

Personal life Gedi was allegedly assaulted by Rashid Kassim, the Wajir East Member of Parliament on 22 October 2019. Witnesses narrate that Mr. Rashid Kassim assaulted Gedi over allocation of money to his constituency. The event caused uproar allover the nation and in the Parliament, the female Members of the National Assembly walked out in solidarity as an act to condemn the assault.

Gedi gained national attention after an alleged sex tape involving her was leaked in 2019. She said her pressing issue on the leaked tape is her children viewing the distorted tape.