Alice Muthoni Wahome has been the talk of social media and blogosphere since the bottom-up gaffe.
The bottom-up economic model championed by Deputy President William Ruto has been the subject of intense debate.
Not everyone seems to really understand what it really is or what it means.
Appearing on Citizen TV's Day Break show on July 28, Kandara MP Alice Wahome was asked what bottom-up and trickle-down mean in "simplified terms".
Her response wasn't really simplified. After a few mumbles, she said "working from the bottom down" and then "from top to bottom".
The DP's opponents had a field day, arguing that Wahome, a close Ruto ally, didn't understand what the bottom-up model is.
Jubilee secretary general Raphael Tuju went on to compare it to an unprintable word.
However, Wahome defended herself a week later, saying it was "a tongue twist".
"If I trend because of a tongue twist, I think that's not bad. The clip was taken out of context as I was attending a show for one-and-a-half hours...I address issues and I speak well," she said.
"For one-and-a-half hours, I addressed several things but they chose to bring a seven-second clip to show that we don't understand the bottom-up economic model.
"This thing is bothering the Celerac babies, Kieleweke and ODM. My answer to them is bring it on, bring your model and let's compete on ideas, not jokes and taking jokes around," she told journalists on August 2.
But Wahome, a lawyer, like many other politicians, appears to have a way with using "taken out of context" in her defence.
This is exactly what she said when she was caught on camera assaulting an IEBC official during the October 17 repeat presidential election.
While the clip clearly showed her manhandling the election official, she said it was taken out of context, instead accusing the official of "lacking interpersonal skills in terms of relations".
"The clip has been taken out of context. We had worked very well with him and I had made requests that were falling on deaf ears. Actually, I'd say if you watch the clip without any bias, you will find that his own conduct, the loud remarks and shouting is actually distasteful and he is playing to the gallery. I didn't fight him, we had a push and shove and that is expected during elections," she said then.
The DPP ordered an investigation into the matter and Wahome's arrest.
Wahome was then defending President Uhuru Kenyatta's reelection after the Supreme Court nullified his August 8 win.
Two years later, she is now a vocal defender of Ruto and a critic of President Kenyatta following the split of Jubilee into Kieleweke and Tangatanga factions.
Her tongue-lash against President Kenyatta in January last year during a presser in Mombasa was the mark of departure.
She accused the man she fought so hard for of being the "biggest existential threat to Kenya's declining economy and democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of political affiliation and growth".
On December 30, 2019, during the burial of Charles Rubia, Wahome had told Uhuru that the fears of the '90s should not creep [back] into the current era.
At the time, the clampdown on Ruto allies had started.
Wahome studied at Karumu Primary School in Kandara, before proceeding to Siakago Girls High School for her O Levels and later to Bishop Gatimu Ngandu High School in Nyeri for her A-levels between 1978 and 1979.
She secured placement at the University of Nairobi to study law between 1980 and 1984 and later Kenya School of Law for her postgraduate diploma in law.
Her first job was at the Attorney General's chambers as a state counsel between 1985 and 1988, before proceeding to set up her firm, AM Wahome Company Advocates in 1989.
She was elected Kandara MP in 2013 on the TNA ticket after two unsuccessful attempts. She is the first woman to represent the constituency.
She is married to Dr Godfrey Wahome Ngayu, a gynaecologist, with whom they have four children, three girls and a son.
