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Gordon Oduor Okumu (Sir. Gordon)

Gordon Oduor Okumu (born on Sunday July 20th 1986) also popularly known to his older supporters as Sir. Gordon and to the youthful supporters as Gordy is a Kenyan Politician who lead the students council of Multimedia University of Kenya between August 2010 to October 2011 when he lost the chairmanship of the said council in the general student's election. Gordon Okumu was brought up by a single mother when his parents separated when he was only three months old and later on his separated father died in a road accident in Nairobi four months after the separation.

Under the care of his mother Mary, Gordon was brought up under strict catholic faith. when he was in class 6 in 1999, Gordon became an alter boy at the Holy Family Basilica and continued as an alter boy through his primary school. He was studying at Riverside Memorial School in Kangemi next to the public cemetery in Kangemi.

In 2001, Gordon, got a blow of his life when his mother did after a short illness. Gordon became a pure orphan and was taken in by Jesuits catholic priests in Kangemi who paid his secondary school fees and gave him accommodations.

In 2005, Gordon completed his secondary education from The Aga Khan High school in westlands Nairobi and joined the Jesuit Novitiate in Arusha Tanzania to train and become a catholic priest. He stayed with the Jesuit up to 2010 when he realized that he had a strong desire fro politics which he would not join when a priest.

During his stay with the Jesuits, Gordon studied philosophy and the Jesuit's constitution. This was to assist him in the life outside the society of Jesus.

Gordon joined the Charismatic Episcopal Church of Africa (CEC-AFrica) after existing the catholic church and though he was offered ordination to become a priest in the CEC-Africa, he declined and instead offered himself to work as an editor of the CEC-Africa's magazine and train CEC member catechism which was similar to the catholic catechism.