Career in Law
Murungi was a partner in a law firm he founded together with Gibson Kamau Kuria, where he practiced law for ten years. His biggest case during this tenure was representing political prisoners of the Moi government including Wanyiri Kihoro against the government itself. A case that is mentioned severally in Wanyiri Kihoro's book Never Say Die: The Chronicle of a Political Prisoner and resulted in the detention of Mr. Kuria in an attempt to cause the abandonment of the case, as well as a period in exile in various western countries for bothe Mr Murungi and Mr. Kuria.
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