Farah Maalim
Farah Maalim Mohamed () is a Kenyan politician, and an advocate of the High Court of Kenya . He is a former parliamentarian, the former Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Kenya, and has over thirty years of experience on the Kenyan political scene. He is of Somali ethnicity. Biography. Maalim belongs to an ethnic Somali family. He was educated at Maseno School, and he studied for an MA in Development Studies at [./Https://mstcdc.or.tz/ MS-TCDC], and studied law at the University of Nairobi, before enrolling to the Kenya School of Law for the statutory post graduate law course  that is a prerequisite to admission to the Kenyan roll of advocates. He is a member of the Wiper Democratic Movement political party in Kenya, and was elected to represent the Lagdera Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya in the 10th Kenyan Parliament. He had previously served in the 7th Kenyan Parliament. In November 2012, Maalim led a group of MPs, which accused Kenyan soldiers of fomenting violence and using undue force during a security operation in Garissa. The legislators threatened to take the matter to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) if the perpetrators were not brought to  justice. Maalim also suggested that the deployment of the soldiers was unconstitutional and had not received the requisite parliamentary approval, and that the ensuing rampage cost Garissa entrepreneurs over Sh1.5 billion to Sh2billion in missed revenue. In the 2013 elections, Maalim ran for the Garissa County Senate seat, but was defeated by Yusuf Haji.