Controversial Gatundu South Member of Parliament Moses Kuria was born 1971 at his rural home in Gatundu South.
Kuria the fifth born in a family of nine, won the Gatundu by-election without an election following the withdrawal of the only challenger, Joachim Kamere, of the New Democrats Party.
The by-election was as a result of the death of then Gatundu South MP Jossy Ngugi in 2014.
Kuria is controversial because he is like a double-edged sword. He cuts from both sides.
In both Jubilee and NASA camps, he evokes mixed emotions. To Nasa leader Raila Odinga’s supporters, he is a tribal chauvinist, a loose cannon and an irritant.
But to President Uhuru Kenyatta’s supporters, he is a defender of 'uthamaki' (kingship) and a retaliatory asset to whatever is hurled at the President.
Kuria started his primary education at Githuya Primary School in Gatundu and completed in 1983. He later joined Ituru Secondary School for his secondary education. Kuria sat for his final secondary exams in 1987.
After his Secondary studies, the vocal lawmaker joined the University of Nairobi where he pursued a Bachelor of Commerce.He graduated in 1993.
It is at the university where Kuria gained his entry into politics after serving as the Treasurer of the Students Organisation of Nairobi University (SONU).
After campus he sought a job at Family Finance and Building Society, now Family Bank, but would disagree with the owner, Titus Muya, after only four days over money.
“During the six-month probation, I was to be paid Sh8,000 and after confirmation, he would pay me Sh6,000. I did not see any sense,” Kuria once told a local media house during an interview.
That is how he landed at Standard Chartered Bank in 1995. He would later work at a Dubai-based bank and return to Kenya in 2007 to help President Mwai Kibaki in his re-election bid.
“I liked Kibaki’s economic philosophy. In Dubai, I would read how besieged he was and I thought, even if he was to lose, he should never lose to a socialist,” he told the same media house.
The Jubilee legislator got married to Joyce Njambi when he moved to work in Saudi Arabia in 1999. Together they are blessed with two sons.
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