Elijah Mwangale

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Elijah Wasike Mwangale (born January 1939 in Matili Village, Kimilili Division, Bungoma County , Western Province , Kenya ; † November 24, 2004 in Nairobi ) was a Kenyan politician who was foreign minister between 1983 and 1987.

Life

After studying agrochemistry, Mwangale worked as a senior lecturer at Egerton University in Nakuru .

He was elected to the National Assembly for the first time as a candidate for the Kenya African National Union (KANU) in the December 1969 elections in the Kimilili constituency and was a member of the National Assembly until his defeat in the multi-party elections in 1992, where he last represented the Bungoma East constituency. In 1992 he lost to Mukhisa Kituyi , the candidate of the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy in Kenya (FORD Kenya).

He was chairman of KANU in Bungoma for several years . Mwangale, who until then was only a backbencher in parliament, gained nationwide fame in March 1979 when he was appointed by President Daniel Arap Moi to chair a commission to investigate the murder of the politician Josiah Mwangi Kariuki .

After the elections in November 1979, he was appointed to the government by President Arap Moi for the first time and took over the post of Minister of Labor. He later served temporarily as Minister for Tourism and Wildlife in the cabinet of President Arap Moi and from December 1982 assisted the President in disempowering the long-serving Attorney General and then influential Minister for Constitutional Affairs, Charles Njonjo . In October 1983 he succeeded Robert Ouko as Foreign Minister and held this position until he was replaced by Zachary Onyonka in June 1987.

As part of this government reshuffle, he took over the post of Minister of Agriculture as the successor to William Odongo Omamo and held this position until he was replaced by Simeon Nyachae in 1992. At the same time he served as Minister for the Development of Livestock between 1989 and 1990. In the course of the multi-party elections in 1992, he was accused of misconduct against opposition politicians and that no proceedings were initiated against him.

During a parliamentary debate on October 15, 1996, he was accused of corrupt behavior and abuse of office as Minister of Agriculture.

Most recently, on April 2, 2001, President arap Moi appointed him Chairman of the Office for Standardization for a three-year term. In addition, he was appointed chairman of a commission for peace talks in the Somali civil war by President Arap Moi in 2002 , but was replaced shortly afterwards by MP Mohammed Affey. On June 18, 2003, the new president, Mwai Kibaki, dismissed him as chairman of the standardization bureau.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ When Kenyatta ordered his cronies' names removed from JM Kariuki's death report. It is 38 years since JM Kariuki was murdered . In: The Daily Nation, August 25, 2013
  3. ^ David William Cohen, ES Atieno Odhiambo: The Risks of Knowledge: Investigations Into the Death of the Hon. Minister Robert Ouko , 2004, ISBN 0-82141-597-2 , pp. 6, 198
  4. ↑ Simiyu Wandibba: Masinde Muliro: A Biography , 1996, ISBN 9-96646-765-3 , p. 26
  5. ^ Moi names Cabinet after first General Election under his rule. November 28, 1979, President Daniel arap Moi named an expanded Cabinet following the General Election . In: The Daily Nation, September 15, 2013
  6. ↑ KENYA: Everything fizzled out. The government in Nairobi wants to curb white sex tourism with a moral campaign . In: Der Spiegel from November 15, 1982
  7. ↑ The Njonjo Affair , in: The Rise of a party-state in Kenya , p 148
  8. ↑ Bruce Berman, Dickson Eyoh, Will Kymlicka (editor): Ethnicity & Democracy in Africa , 2004, ISBN 0-85255-860-0 , p. 171
  9. ↑ The Big Names that Rose, Fell and Rose-Again under arap Moi . In. Africa News Online October 12, 2008
  10. ↑ 4 Opposition Party Leaders Arrested in Kenya: Crackdown: They are charged with spreading rumors attacking President Moi's governmen . In: The Los Angeles Times, January 15, 1992
  11. ↑ Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard) of October 15, 1996
  12. ↑ Kenya Gazette, April 6, 2001
  13. ↑ Kenya Gazette, June 20, 2003
personal data
SURNAME Mwangale, Elijah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mwangale, Elijah Wasike (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kenyan politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Matili Village, Kimilili Division, Bungoma County , Western Province , Kenya
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 2004
Place of death Nairobi