Moses Wetangula
Moses Masika Wetangula (born September 13, 1956 in the province of Western (Kenya) ) is a Kenyan politician .
biography
Wetangula studied after school at the Nalondo Primary School, the Teremi Secondary School and the Friends' School Kamusinga Law at the University of Nairobi and graduated with a Bachelor of Law from (LL.B.) with honors and a diploma. He initially worked as a lawyer with a small law firm in Nairobi and Mombasa before becoming the owner of Wetang'ula & Company Advocates. In the course of time he achieved nationwide fame as a lawyer and was of national importance as a lawyer in court proceedings before the High Court of Kenya, most recently in the investigation into the still unsolved murder of Foreign Minister Robert Ouko . In addition, he was involved in legal associations such as the International Bar Association and the Kenyan Association of the International Commission of Jurists.
He began his political career in 1992 when he was elected Member of Parliament , to which he is a representative of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) after his re-elections in 1997, 2002 and 2007 as a representative of the constituency of Sirisia . During his membership in parliament he was a member of the parliamentary committees for law and constitution, foreign affairs and the standing committee. He also represented Kenya in the Joint Assembly of the ACP States and the European Union and was temporarily President of the Working Group for Regional Cooperation in this Joint Parliamentary Assembly . He was also a member of the Executive Committee of the Parliamentary Society of the Commonwealth of Nations for the East and Central Africa region . He was also temporarily chairman of the electricity regulator.
In 2003 and again from 2006 to 2008 he was Assistant Minister for International Affairs in the Foreign Ministry. During this time he was also enrolled in postgraduate studies in the Law Faculty of the University of Nairobi.
As part of an extensive cabinet reshuffle, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs on January 8, 2008 and sworn in on January 10, 2008 after the re-election of President Mwai Kibaki .
In August 2008 he offered to mediate in Zimbabwe between Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai . At the beginning of January 2009 he declared on behalf of the Kenyan government that it would not send any army troops because of the conflict in neighboring Somalia . In September 2009, he and Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman signed a declaration on cooperation between the two countries in areas such as health, agriculture, education and security during his visit to Kenya.
Web links
- Biography on the government homepage ( Memento from January 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- CV in AfDevInfo ( Memento from October 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Information in rulers.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ MOSES WETANGULA: The road to peace
- ↑ Kenya says will not send troops to Somalia ( Memento from May 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://nlarchiv.israel.de/2009_html/09/Infobrief from 07.09.2009a.htm (link not available)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wetangula, Moses |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moses Masika Wetang'ula |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kenyan politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Western Province (Kenya) |