Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria is undoubtedly the most controversial MP in the 11th parliament.
Born in 1971, the father of two became an MP after the death of his predecessor Jossy Ngugi.
But before then, he was a student at Nairobi University where he had been suspended and had it not been for Raila Odinga, Kuria would have been, maybe, anywhere else but elective politics.
Kuria comes across as a man who hates the Luo community in its entirety and he has been cited severally by the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) for a post on his Facebook page that was deemed demeaning to the Luo.
His current run in with the police stems from his utterances touching on alleged calls for Raila’s assassination.
What many of his supporters do not know though is that it is Raila who interceded and helped Kuria be readmitted to the University of Nairobi.
According to Softkenya.com, when Kuria and his colleagues were ejected by the university’s senate, it is Raila who gave Kuria some money and instructed the late Otieno Kajwang’ to represent the student leaders in court.
“I can confirm that Raila gave Kuria Sh400 and paid Kajwang to represent the students in court. I can also confirm that on Saturday January 20, 1995, Kuria attended Jaramogi Oginga Odinga’s first anniversary and slept in Raila’s Opoda Farm home in Bondo,” says the site.
Allegedly, the late Otieno Kajwang’ represented Kuria in court for close to a year, until Justice Mwera threw out the case and ordered the university to re-admit Kuria and his colleagues.
After graduation, he worked at Githongo & Co before moving to Total Kenya as an accountant in 1994.
He later worked at Family Finance and Building Society, now Family Bank, after which he moved to Standard Chartered Bank in 1995.
Kuria moved to Saudi Arabia after seven years at the bank where he met and married his wife Joyce Njambi.
The MP became a sensation for vehemently defending President Uhuru Kenyatta against his indictment by the International Criminal Court (ICC). After the case was dropped, he claimed that the case pitting Deputy President William Ruto and former radio journalist Joshua arap Sang was politically organised.
Speaking at a prayer rally on Sunday, July September 20, he revealed that together with Martha Karua they coached witnesses to testify against Ruto and Sang.
The MP speaks his mind in an unrestrained manner and his guerrilla tactics in handling his political enemies have become unmanageable unless the courts intervene. He is yet to keep his word against inflammatory remarks and only time will tell if the latest court ruling will reign him in.