About the Candidate
Meet Master Kahara Macharia
Kazi, Uaminifu na Matokeo
A Thika man who has spent years in the rooms where decisions are made, and on the streets where their consequences are lived. In 2027 he asks Thika Town for the mandate to connect the two.
The Story
Listening, working, showing up
Master Kahara Macharia is a businessman and public-interest advocate from Thika. Long before declaring his candidacy, he was already doing the unglamorous parts of the job: sitting on the grass with boda boda riders to hear their case, speaking for market traders on television when their livelihoods were threatened, and following public-interest questions all the way into the courtroom.
He believes leadership is a service contract, not a status. His campaign runs on three Kiswahili words he intends to be judged by: Kazi (work), Uaminifu (integrity) and Matokeo (results). Everything else in this campaign, from the ten written commitments to the published trackers this website will carry, exists to make those three words checkable.
He is also a builder of institutions, not just a joiner of them: he founded the Party of Action, a political party headquartered in Thika town itself, proof that he organises where he comes from. For the 2027 race he carries that experience onto the Wiper Patriotic Front ticket, standing with the united opposition.
In 2027 he is the Wiper Patriotic Front candidate for Member of Parliament for Thika Town Constituency, standing on a platform of education, jobs, infrastructure, health and accountability.
At a Glance
- Name: Master Kahara Macharia
- Running for: Member of Parliament, Thika Town Constituency
- Party: Wiper Patriotic Front (WPF)
- Political record: Founder, Party of Action
- Election: Kenya General Election, 2027
- Slogan: Time for Change
- Motto: Kazi, Uaminifu na Matokeo
The Journey
A record you can trace
Every stop below is documented in the photo and video record on the media page.
With Thika's riders and traders
Ground-level engagements with boda boda associations and market traders across the constituency, hearing grievances on permits, safety and harassment first hand. Photographed in Thika by Thika Photography.
Speaking for Thika on television
Interviewed on Inooro TV, in studio and on the streets of Thika, on the concerns of the town's traders and on national leadership questions.
In the economic rooms
A speaker at business and finance forums, including a Kingdom Bank enterprise forum, arguing for credit access and support for small business.
On the national civic stage
Present at the Limuru III conference, at climate platforms ahead of COP30, and at the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties as opposition politics reorganised for 2027.
Standing up in court
Followed the Safaricom shares public-interest dispute through the law courts, a case argued before the nation by Senior Counsel Kalonzo Musyoka, and pursued accountability petitions at the Judicial Service Commission.
Founding the Party of Action
Founded and led the Party of Action, a political party headquartered in Thika town, building a grassroots political organisation from home ground up.
The 2027 candidacy
Declared for Member of Parliament, Thika Town, on the Wiper Patriotic Front ticket, standing with the united opposition. Time for change.