Jean marie seroney biography definition

Kenyan legislator (–)

Jean-Marie Seroney (25 July – 6 December ) was a Kenyan human rights advocate, legislator, and an Amnesty Internationalprisoner of conscience.

He was detained as a prisoner of conscience for 1, days.

Seroney served as the Member of the Legislative Council for Nandi Constituency from to and a Member of Parliament (MP) for Nandi North from to before becoming the Member for the newly formed Tinderet Constituency from to As a legislator, he worked hard to introduce bills that would remove or at least check the excessive powers vested in the president as a result of the numerous amendments to the Constitution.

He also brought in the first private member's bill to help ensure that Kenya's elections were free, fair, and inclusive.

Seroney decried what he described as the wanton abuse of power by the executive and condemned corruption, the unfair distribution of national wealth, theft of land from the poor by the ruling elite, and the failu