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Jean-Marie Seroney
Jean-Marie Seroney (25 July 1927 – 6 December 1982) was a Kenyan human rights advocate, a legislator, and an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience. He served as the Member of the Legislative Council for Nandi Constituency from 1961 to 1963 and Member of Parliament for Nandi North from 1963 to 1966 before becoming the Member for the newly formed Tinderet Constituency from 1966 to 1975. He was arrested and detained without trial for three and a half years. Seroney defended the independence of Parliament at a time when it was becoming an arm of the executive branch. He worked hard to introduce bills that would remove or at least check the excessive powers vested in the President as a result of the numerous amendments to the Kenya Constitution. He also brought in the first Private Member's Bill to help ensure that elections were free, fair and inclusive. He decried what he described as the wanton abuse of power by the executive branch and also condemned corruption in Kenya, the unfair distribution of national wealth, theft of land from the poor and landless by the ruling elite and so forth. He soon made powerful enemies, and his detention eventually led to his death.
==Early life==
Jean-Marie Seroney was born on Monday, 25 July 1927 at Kapsabet, Nandi District of Kenya.〔From an affidavit sworn in his application to become a Member of the Kenyan Bar (Law Society of Kenya)dated 25 September 1958〕 He was born Eric Kipketer Seroney, the first child to the recently converted Africa Inland Mission (AIM) teacher/evangelist Reuben Seroney and Leah Jeptarus Tapmaina Seroney who had also joined the Mission at Kapsabet. Shortly after his birth, the Rev. Stuart M. Bryson was posted to Kapsabet AIM Mission to take over. Bryson immediately sent Reuben Seroney and his family to start an out-school at Surungai some 32 miles north of the mission.〔Bryson, Stuart M., Light in Darkness: The Story of the Nandi Bible, Parry Jackman, London 1959, p.64〕 Reuben and Leah taught at the Surungai School in the afternoons and spent their mornings preaching in the nearby villages.〔Bryson, Stuart M., Light in Darkness: The Story of the Nandi Bible, Parry Jackman, London 1959, p.65〕 Two years later, Leah was expecting a baby but developed complications of labour and died leaving Reuben and two-year-old Eric. Leah Jeptarus was the older sister of Rev. Ezekiel Birech the late presiding Bishop of the AIC Church in Kenya.
Her death early in 1929 was a major blow to Reuben Seroney. He busied himself teaching in the new school and preaching in the surrounding villages. He would cycle back to Kapsabet where the translation of the Bible to Nandi language had begun. Two years later he married Rebecca Jeptanui and young Eric had a new mother.
The Seroney family lived in the Surungai Mission until 1933 when Reuben was asked to move to Kapsowar in Elgeyo-Marakwet area to pioneer the Mission with Rev. and Mrs. R. V. Reynolds. The AIM had also started a hospital there which stands to date. Reuben Seroney stayed at Kapsowar as an evangelist and the lead teacher of the school there for five years. He visited nearby villages and far-off areas teaching and preaching. It was during one of his visits to Kabartonjo in Tugen country that Reuben Seroney met Daniel Toroitich arap Moi, later to become President of Kenya. He then became Moi's teacher and mentor and was instrumental in placing him at Government African School Kapsabet in 1938.〔"President Moi the Man" Viva Magazine, OAU Special Issue No. 8, Trend Publishers Ltd., Nairobi, June 1981 p. 43〕
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