LANGAT BENJAMIN KIPKIRUI
| AGE | NOT KNOWN |
| GENDER | MALE |
| OCCUPATION | POLITICIAN |
Langat Benjamin is the current Member of Parliament for Ainamoi Constituency and the immediate former Kenya High Commissioner to Namibia.
Kipkirui was born and raised in Ainamoi, which by then was known as Kericho District.
He served as the Member of Parliament for Ainamoi Constituency in Kericho from 2008 to 2017.
This was after the death of his brother, who previously represented the constituency.
Also, Benjamin was elected in the 2022 general elections to Parliament under the United Democratic Alliance party.
Education background of Langat Benjamin
Benjamin attended Kericho High School for his O’Levels studies and proceeded to the University of Nairobi to pursue his undergraduate degree in Commerce.
He furthered his studies to postgraduate level, leading to a Master of Business Administration from the same university.
Hon. Langat is also a fully Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and has good standing at the Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Langat is currently pursuing his PhD in Finance at the University of Nairobi.
Langat’s career
Langat has served as a Senior Accountant at Chai Trading Company Limited, a subsidiary of KTDA and worked as an Internal Auditor at Consolidated Bank of Kenya Ltd.
This was before joining politics in the year 2008 and getting elected as a Member of Parliament representing the Ainamoi Constituency for two consecutive terms.
In 2015, he was awarded the Chief of the Order of the Burning Spear (CBS) award by the president of the Republic of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, for his distinguished service to the nation.
In 2022, he was re-elected to Parliament to represent the people of the Ainamoi Constituency in the 13th Parliament.
As the head of mission in Windhoek, Langat sought to promote and protect the Kenyan-Namibian relations within the broad areas of economic, political, social, and environmental interests of the two countries.
Bills sponsored
Benjamin Kipkirui Langat has sponsored 9 bills in the National Assembly from the year 2013 to 2017.
This includes the value added tax bill, the insurance bill, the tax appeals tribunal bill, the finance bill, the micro finance bill, the Kenya deposit insurance bill and the insurance bill 2013.
Additionally, he also sponsored the Securities and Investment Analysts Bill and the Finance Bill in 2014.
Family of Langat Benjamin
MP Langat has not publicised information about his family, and as a result, very little is known about his family, including whether him having a brother who also served in parliament and died then he took over the leadership.
Networth
Benjamin Langat’s net worth is not publicly known, but as a Kenyan member of parliament, he is entitled to a salary of approximately Ksh1 million.
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