Minister Mwakwere's profile as given by the Daily Nation

CHIRAU MWAKWERE: TRANSPORT

The MP for Matuga constituency was born in 1945 at Golini, Kwale District. He first trained as teacher at Kenyatta College, now Kenyatta University between 1964 to 1966 before proceeding to the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom and later to the University of Reading.
He obtained a Master Trainer from the University of Connecticut, USA and a Master of Science in Maritime Studies and International, Transport from the University of Wales in Cardiff in 1982 and 1986 respectively.

Before joining politics in 2002, he had previously served as an ambassador to Harare and accredited to Mozambique, Swaziland and Lesotho. He later served as the Ambassador to United Arab Emirates and the State of Qatar.

He has also been a principal at Bandari College. From January to June 2003, he was appointed an assistant minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and from June 2003 to June 2004, the minister for Labour and Human Resource Development. Mwakwere also served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs before given the Transport docket after a reshuffle that saw the entire cabinet dissolved.