Alfred Mutua
| Dr Alfred N. Mutua | |
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| 1st Governor of Machakos County | |
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Assumed office 27 March 2013 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
22 August 1970 Machakos, Kenya |
| Nationality | Kenyan |
| Political party | Maendeleo Chap Chap |
| Spouse(s) | Lilian Nganga |
| Alma mater |
Whitworth College (BA) EWU (MSc) UWS (PhD) |
Dr Alfred Nganga Mutua (born 22 August 1970) is a Kenyan politician who is Current Machakos County. Mutua was the Kenyan government spokesman before resigning to run for the office of County Governor.
He was born in Masii, Machakos County and is married with several children. He has lived, studied and worked in Kenya, USA, Australia and the United Arab Emirates and has been a business man, lecturer, civil servant and politician. In 2014, he was involved in a legal tussle over custody of their children with his estranged wife Josephine Thitu Maundu.
He was educated at Dagoretti High School (O level) and at Jamhuri High School (A level). He obtained his BA in Journalism from Whitworth College in the United States and his MSc in Communication from Eastern Washington University. He received his doctorate in communication and media from the University of Western Sydney in Australia.
Mutua was appointed the first official government spokesperson of Kenya on June 2004. He served in that capacity until 3 September 2012. He was also the public communications secretary and head of the Office of Public Communications in the Office of the President. Under his stewardship in this office, Mutua established a public campaign to promote patriotism, Najivunia Kuwa Mkenya. Mutua is also remembered for denying the existence of deaths resulting from drought in Kenya in 2011. This act of refuting previously reported media reports earned him the reputation of being the "Government Spin Doctor". He is also remembered for running a Nairobi beautification program which included replacing trees and shrubs with arrangements of pebbles and flowers along the City's highways.
Mutua was also mandated with a couple of presidential tasks, among the notable ones was to chair a task force that was charged with ensuring that Mombasa was ready for the 2007 IAAF athletics championships held in Mombasa.
Mutua became the first governor of Machakos County, which is one of the counties established under the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 and was sworn in on 27 March 2013. He was elected on a Wiper Democratic Movement Party ticket alongside Mr. Bernard Kiala as his Deputy Governor.
In August 2016, Mutua formerly launched a political party called Maendeleo Chap Chap Party. This was a culmination of several months of speculation among the Kenyan media and general public that Mutua had abandoned Wiper Democratic Movement - the party that had sponsored him for his election as Machakos Governor in 2013. Mutua's action of launching and supporting a political party other than the one that sponsored him was considered controversial. He was expected to vacate office and seek a fresh mandate as Machakos County Governor; being sponsored by his new political party in line with Kenyan electoral laws. When Mutua did not vacate office to seek fresh re-election, Wiper Democratic Movement Party's disciplinary committee found him culpable of launching and supporting another political party. The disciplinary committee deemed him to have resigned from the party.
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