Reverend Moses Akaranga is a Kenyan politician who served as the first governor of

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county having been defeated by Dr. Wilberforce Ottichilo in August 2017. He is also former Member of parliament for

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constituency, having defeated

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of KANU from the

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seat in the 2002 elections on a Ford-Kenya ticket. He served only one term and was defeated by Mudavadi, who was now representing

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at the 2007 elections. He is the first Kenyan Member of Parliament to unseat a sitting Vice President.

political career

In 2002, he was elected as M.P for Sabatia Constituency. He served as a Commissioner with the Parliamentary Service Commission and was the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Staff Welfare Committee. In 2003, he was appointed as Assistant Minister for

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and in 2004 became Minister of State for Public Service in the Office of the President. During his tenure as a Minister, Kenya was awarded the prestigious

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Public Service Award. He initiated Performance Contracting in the Public Service, introduced the Rapid Results Initiative program (RRI), oversaw the review of civil servant salaries and the increment of pensions to all retired civil servants. He has also served as the vice chairman of the Humanitarian Settlement Fund. He previously worked as a Senior Business Manager at

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of Kenya Limited thereafter working with the Pentecostal Assemblies of Kenya (P.A.G. Kenya) as the General Administrator. In Kenya’s 2013 general election, Moses vied in the gubernatorial elections, winning as Governor of

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, alongside Deputy Governor Caleb Temba Amaswache. He was elected on a PPK party ticket.

References

Living people County Governors of Kenya Members of the National Assembly (Kenya) 1953 births {{Kenya-politician-stub