Education
Kiraitu Murungi was born on 1 January 1952 in Kionyo village, Abogeta division of Meru District in Central Kenya. He attended Chuka High School before proceeding to Alliance High School. Murungi graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in Nairobi University in 1977 and attained a Master of Law in the same university in 1982. He attained another Master in 1991 of Law at Harvard Law School where he served two years in exile in the United States at the heyday of Daniel arap Moi's one-party dictatorship.
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