Gathoni Wamuchomba

Peninnah Gathoni Mūchomba, also popularly known as Gathoni Wa Mūchomba, is a Kenyan journalist, entrepreneur and politician. She is the Member of Parliament for Githunguri Constituency in the bicameral Kenyan parliament since 2022 and a member of the ruling party, the UDA.

She previously vied for and won the Kiambu Women Representative parliamentary post in the 2017 General election. She garnered 922,829 votes from Kiambu county constituents, making her the third candidate to receive over 0.9 million votes in that election behind Uhuru Kenyatta, the president and Raila Odinga, the presidential runner-up.

Early life and education Gathoni Wa Mūchomba was born in 1975 in Komothai Ward, Gìthūngūri Constituency in Kiambu County of Kenya. Gathoni later joined Makuyu Secondary School in Muranga County, where she worked as an untrained teacher. She is the founder and managing director of a vernacular digital Kikuyu television station called Utugi Television, that targets farmers in Kenya. Her sentiments attracted criticism from members of the public both offline and online leading to a petition to recall her. The motion did not succeed because there were not enough grounds for her to be recalled according to the County Government Act. She later apologized to Kenyans and her party leader President Uhuru Kenyatta.

In 2025 she was one of thirteen African women chosen as a future Amujae leader by the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development.