Dr. Alred Mutua, a nominee for the position of Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary, revealed before the parliamentary Committee on Appointments that his current net worth is Ksh.420 million.
“My net worth is approximately ksh420 million. I have businesses including hotels, apartments, and a few businesses here and there,” Mutua claimed to the committee.
“How much were you worth before you became governor? If the only source of income is pension and businesses you said you have here and there, do they constitute the sources you have indicated?” ichungwah challenged Mutua on his income source.
This comes from the controversial Machakos county government debt, over 2 Billion even though the nominated cabinet secretary denied to not have such amounts on his records, attributing that amount to news and news sources.
“I was worth over ksh 200 million before I became governor as I had already invested and my apartments were able to grow. What I presented were assets in terms of land that I acquired from money I acquired from the middle East,” Alfred Mutua answered on the clarification of his wealth declaration.
Mutua claimed that the vat growth that Machakos county has received under is regime will be scale higher as he is now looking forward t run a national docket.
The ex-Machakos governor presented his ambitions of reforming the foreign affairs ministry that can scale Kenya as a country to the next level amongst them being the long struggle of domestic workers in the Arab countries.
Mutua presided over Machakos County for two terms. On a Maendeleo Chap Chap Party ticket, which he created in August 2016, he was reelected during the 2017 general elections.
The Wiper Democratic Party nominated Mutua to run in the first election for governor in 2013.
At the age of 33, former President Mwai Kibaki appointed Mutua as the first official Government Spokesman, a job he held from 2004 to 2012, when he entered electoral politics. He was also a journalist served different media stations earlier in his career.
