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Hon. Moses Wetangula, the Minister for Trade .He was the immediate Minister for Foreign Affairs, previously was the Assistant Minister for International Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was born on September 13, 1956 in Western Kenya. He is currently enrolled for a Post Graduate Studies at the Faculty of Law at University of Nairobi. He holds a Bachelor of Law (LLB) Honors from the University of Nairobi and a Diploma in Legal Studies. He has been in the legal practice as a Sole practitioner M. M Wetang’ula Advocate Chambers in Nairobi and Mombasa, Proprietor, Wetang’ula & Company Advocates. He has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1993. He has served on the Speaker’s Panel, been a Member of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) East and Central African Region and Member of the Joint Assembly of the African Caribbean and Pacific/European Union (ACP/EU).
Wetangula is the President of ACP/EU Joint Assembly working Group on Regional Cooperation. He has also served as a Member in the Parliamentary Committees on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Foreign Affairs and Standing Orders, Chairman of the Electricity Regulatory Board, Member of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, International Bar Association and International Commission of Jurists, Kenya Chapter.
Among the landmark cases that he handled in his legal practice involved the Post 1982 Coup attempt Treason Trials, University of Nairobi Post 1986, Disturbances Trials, Commission of Inquiry into the disappearance and Subsequent death of Dr. Robert Ouko, the Late Foreign Affairs Minister of Kenya. Wetangula hobbies include Reading, Swimming and other health Club Activities, farming, traveling, intellectual debates and politics.
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