If Not A Lawyer, I Would Have Been A Teacher; Martha Karua Reveals

Martha Karua, a Kenyan deputy presidential candidate for Azimio La Umoja One, currently asserts that she would have become a teacher instead of a lawyer.

Karua claimed that before she developed an interest in law, her parents had introduced her to teaching earlier in life.

Karua claims that her passion in education stems from the fact that both of her parents were educators.

“Apart from being educated by teachers in the schools and in university I also have that background of being a product of teachers as a family and of having myself taught in various stages,” said Karua.

“In fact if I had not become a lawyer the next thing I would have become is a teacher. My father would have really wanted that at that time.”

Reminiscing on her untrained teaching experiences, Karua revealed that she began teaching after completing her Form Four studies and later after her A-levels.

“I am a teacher through an untrained one. I’m not only the daughter of teachers because both my parents taught. I joined them after Form four for three months and after A-levels for four months,” said Karua.

“Before joining university then I went for clerical work at the court. I think in preparation of the lawyering duties.”
While meeting with representatives of the Teachers’ Union from the 47 counties, Karua was speaking in Kiambu.

She stressed the significant social role that educators play and urged them to speak up about the topics they want the Azimio-One Kenya alliance to take up if they are elected in August.

“Your voice in the community is very strong. When people cannot quite understand something they refer back to teachers. Therefore we should not be taking down but we should be engaging and hearing your views so that we may be able to serve you,” Karua said.

“When it comes to education you are the experts and it is your ideas and advice that we as a country should be relying on.”