Current Meru County Senator Kiraitu Murungi (left) and the first Meru County Senator Julius Muthamia chat after an Alliance Party of Kenya (APK) meeting at Heritage Hotel in Meru County on September 22, 2014. Eighty-year-old Muthamia was the county’s first senator after the colonial government from the establishment of the senate in 1963 until its abolition in 1966.