Omar Mwinyi Shimbwa (born 1 August 1958) is a Kenyan politician and long-serving Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) legislator who has represented Changamwe Constituency in Mombasa County since 2013, having been re-elected in both the 2017 and 2022 general elections. A former national chair of the Islamic Party of Kenya (IPK) in the early 1990s before its merger into FORD-Kenya, he has been part of coastal opposition politics for decades and remains a key ODM figure in Mombasa. In the 13th Parliament, official records list him as a member of several influential financial and oversight committees, including the Public Accounts Committee and other audit-related committees that scrutinise national expenditure, public debt and state corporations, building on earlier experience in the Departmental Committee on Public Works, Roads & Transport and other House bodies. This positioning has made him one of the more visible voices from the Coast on questions of public finance, infrastructure and constituency development. Mwinyi’s public life is anchored in a long career in education and local leadership. He began his schooling at Bomu Primary School (1964–1971), proceeded to Allidina Visram High School for O-levels (1972–1975), and later trained as a P1 teacher at Kagumo Teachers’ College (1977–1979), before returning to formal studies decades later to earn a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Kenya Methodist University (2015–2022). Professionally he started as a teacher at Marereni Primary School (1979–1981), then rose through deputy headteacher and headteacher roles at Mwajibu, Chaani and Bomu primary schools through to 1990, gaining deep roots in Changamwe community life. His political journey has not been without controversy: during the 2017 ODM party nominations he was accused of failing to restrain supporters who attacked police and destroyed voting materials, and in August 2018 a Mombasa court convicted him on two assault-related counts, sentencing him to four years in prison or a KSh 1 million fine—he paid the fine and continued to serve as MP, even as rights groups and commentators sharply debated the case and its implications for accountability.