Alfred Mutua, whose full name is Alfred Ng’ang’a Mutua is a Kenyan politician and the current governor of Machakos County. Alfred was the Kenyan government spokesman before resigning in 2012 to run for gubernatorial seat of Machakos County.
Alfred is businessman, lecturer, civil servant and politician and was born in Masii. More so, Mutua has lived, studied and worked in different jurisdictions such as Kenya, US, Australia and the United Arab Emirates.
Age
He was born on 22th August, 1970, Masii, Machakos County.
Education
He attended Dagoretti Primary School and later Jamhuri High School for his primary and secondary education, respectively. He got his Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Whitworth College in the United States and his MSc in Communication from the Eastern Washington University in US. Mutua received his doctorate in communication and media from Australia at the University of Western Sydney.
Wife
Alfred got married to Josephine Thitu Maundu and together had three children who are currently residing in Australia. He later got married to Lilian Ng’ang’a who is the Machakos County First Lady.
Family
Alfred was born in a family of two boys and a girl, Ann Mutua. In July 1st, 2000, Mutua was married to Josephine Thitu Maundu. They were officially separated on August 19th, 2015. Alfred, in 2014, lodged a legal tussle over custody of their three children with his estranged wife. This was followed by a court battle with the estranged wife over the property.
Political Career
Alfred Mutua became the first governor of Machakos County, which is among the 47 counties established under the Constitution of Kenya and was sworn in on 27th March, 2013. Mutua was elected on a Wiper Democratic Movement Party ticket together with his Deputy Governor, Mr. Bernard Kiala. Alfred formerly launched a political party known as Maendeleo Chap Chap Party in August, 2016. This was a culmination of several months of speculation among the Kenyan media and general public that Alfred had abandoned Wiper Democratic Movement party which had sponsored him, in 2013, for his election as Machakos Governor. His action of launching and supporting a political party other than the one that sponsored him was considered controversial.
Mutua was expected to vacate office and seek a fresh mandate as Machakos County Governor, being sponsored by his new launched political party in line with Kenyan electoral laws. When he 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 besides Wiper. The disciplinary committee deemed him to have resigned from the Wiper party.
A notice to impeach him was filed in the Machakos County Assembly by a member, Stephen Muthuka in November 2016. This was after the motion notice which was signed by 46 out of 59 Machakos county assembly members and this meeting the two thirds threshold for an impeachment motion to progress. The impeachment motion were alleged breach of the Kenyan constitution, procurement laws and devolution laws including among the reasons. Many days before his impeachment motion at the Machakos County Assembly, over half of the 59 members of assembly travelled out of the country in what was considered to be a tactical move for scuttling the impeachment process. The impeachment motion was debated with Alfred being represented by his lawyer in the absence of 32 members of the county assembly. When the final vote was taken 26 out of 27 assembly’s member voted to impeach him. However, this was too few votes to legally impeach him since the threshold of 40 members of the county assembly voting in favor of the motion wasn’t attained.
Reports came up that Alfred never formally resign from Wiper Democratic Movement before launching his Maendeleo Chap Chap Party on June 10th, 2017. This was after an IEBC Tribunal nullified the candidature of Mutua’s main challenger for the 2017 mid term election. The High Court reinstated Mr. Wavinya Ndeti as a candidate in the general election.
