Activism
In the early 1990s, Muriithi teamed up with fellow thespians, including Packson Ngugi and a group of activists led by firebrand Kenyan politician and now Cabinet Minister James Orengo, to protest the government's intention to sell the Kenya National Theatre building to the adjacent Norfolk Hotel against the wishes of the artists. The idea was consequently shelved.
In October 2009, Muriithi received an award from Kenya's ambassador to the U.S. for what the Kenyan Embassy in Washington DC termed "his Professional support and cooperation with the Embassy". It was presented amid pomp and color at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia by HE. Peter Ogego, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
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