Jack Ranguma Biography
Jack Nyanungo Ranguma (Jack Ranguma) also known as JR, is a Kenyan politician and the Governor of Kisumu County, Kenya. He is a member of Orange Democratic Movement and a coalition member of Coalition for Reforms and Democracy. His deputy governor is Ruth Adhiambo Odinga Busia
Jack Ranguma studied Public Finance and Development, Tax Policy and Revenue Forecasting, Restructuring and Reconstruction, Project Management and International Management. He is known as a practical Tax Policy specialist who enjoys engagement with fine details of public finance management and economic development.
Jack Ranguma – Education Background
Graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Master of Science (International Accounting and Management Information Systems)
He holds a Masters Degree in Accounting and Finance.
He also studied Public Finance and Development, Tax Policy and Revenue Forecasting, Restructuring and Reconstruction, Project Management and International Management.
Jack Ranguma Political Positions
March 2013 : Governor for Kisumu county
Coalition member of Coalition for Reforms and Democracy
Member of Orange Democratic Movement
Jack Ranguma Job History
Prior to entering politics Jack Ranguma had worked as an accountant for close to 30 years.
2008- 2012: Senior Policy Advisor, Tax Justice Network Africa, a pan-African organization.
2002- 2008: Commissioner of Income Tax, and later Commissioner of Domestic Taxes, Kenya Revenue Authority
1991- 2001: Partner and Head of Financial and Management Consultancy Services
1989- 1001: Partner in charge of audit services, BDO International.
Achievements
Jack Ranguma
For over 25 years Jack worked as Senior Partner and Head of Consulting Practice of BDO Binder International. During that period he developed extensive networks as advisor on finance and development, financial and institutional restructuring and reconstruction.
Jack Ranguma re-established the collapsed Muhoroni Sugar Company Limited and helped re-employ more than 300,000 people.
He also helped to restructure and re-establish several private companies that had collapsed or were about to be wound up, including banks, financial institutions, development banks and agri-business organisations.
While he was the Commissioner of Domestic Taxes of the Kenya Revenue Authority in-charge of Inland Revenue functions and revenue reforms, Jack was extensively instrumental in tax policy formulation and administrative reform, public finance, international and bilateral negotiations, modernization of intra-government operations and general oversight.
His efforts in Revenue transformation gave birth to what many Kenyans now enjoy in CDF funding.
He has also served as the Senior Advisor for Tax Justice Network for Africa, a pan-African organization that provides tax expertise on tax evasion, international tax competition, transfer pricing and regressive tax practices.
Jack Ranguma has also been actively involved in transforming and re-structuring other revenue authorities in Africa.
Jack Ranguma Family
Jack Ranguma wife is Olivia Ranguma and they have two children; Sonya (Ranguma) Berg; Tanya Ranguma
Jack Ranguma on proposal to resettle Thessalia IDPs
Governor Jack Ranguma has refused to help resettle 1,500 internally displaced persons. Mr Ranguma rejected a proposal by the County Lands Management Board that either the National Lands Commission (NLC) or the county government finds alternative land for resettlement of Thessalia and Jaber IDPs, saying the county government was not consulted before resolutions were arrived at.
The two groups were uprooted from their homes during the 1992 tribal clashes and have been living on a small piece of land in Muhoroni. In 2013, Kibigori Plantation Scheme on the troubled border of Kisumu and Nandi counties was identified for their relocation and each family paid Sh10,120 for two acres. But they have been unable to move to the land due to hostility from current dwellers, the Nyangore squatters, who said they had lived there for over 40 years.
Jack Ranguma’s rejection of the proposal came barely two months after Kisumu County Commissioner John Elungata dismissed a directive from NLC that his office offers security for the IDPs to enable them move to the new land. He said the dispute over the land was beyond security and urged NLC Chairman Muhammad Swazuri to settle the ownership dispute first.
On May 23 2016, the three parties laying claim to the land met the Kisumu County Lands Management Board to broker a deal. Minutes of the meeting held at the Kisumu Ministry of Lands office and attended by representatives of the squatters show that it was agreed the land be given to the Nyangore Group, a decision the two other groups contest.
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Jack Ranguma – spent Sh21 million on his stay at a top Kisumu hotel
Kisumu Governor Jack Ranguma spent nearly Sh21 million on accommodation in a hotel as the devolved government renovated his official residence.
A damning report released by Auditor-General Edward Ouko also revealed that even as the millions were paid to the hotel for Mr Jack Ranguma stay, another Sh540,000 was paid by the county government as the governor’s house rent at the same time.
It was unclear why Mr Jack Ranguma could not use his house as the county government went on with renovations on the official residence.
Many governors in Nyanza have sought accommodation in three- and five-star hotels in Kisumu, abandoning lavish homes renovated by county governments.
MOVED TO HOUSE
“In the year under review, the county government paid Sh20,910,169 to a hotel for the governor’s full board accommodation, car hire and other hotel services,” said the report.
The audit said after being in the hotel for months, Mr Jack Ranguma moved into the new house in Kisumu, whose rent was Sh250,000 a month.
“With effect from July 9 2013, the governor moved into a rented premises where the county government paid a monthly rent of Sh250,000,” says the report.
However, despite moving into the new house, the report says the Kisumu hotel still charged the county government Sh522,124 between July 9 and August 1, 2013.
Still at the hotel, a car was hired for Mr Jack Ranguma at Sh25,000 a day, excluding Value Added Tax and fuel expenses.
NO AGREEMENT
The county government was billed and paid Sh552,124 for full accommodation at the hotel between July 9, 2013 and August 1, 2013, resulting in double payment for accommodation for the period in question.
“The expenditure for the car hire and fuel expenses totalled Sh5,552,913 from May to September 2013. However, there was no agreement and it was not clear how the hotel was identified and awarded the contract,” the auditor stated in the report.
Also questioned is the rationale behind the hiring of cars even after Governor Ranguma was allocated three vehicles by the county government.
Even more astonishing is the fact that the vouchers totalling Sh9 million paid to the hotel where Governor Jack Ranguma was being accommodated were not made available for audit verification and the payment was not confirmed.
The report also says the county government choked the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Referral Hospital of funds, stifling important operations and jeopardising service delivery.
DENIED MONEY
In September 2013, the National Treasury, according to the audit report, said it had released Sh395 million to the region’s largest referral hospital, but the Kisumu County Government only released Sh129 million to the hospital.
“The county government, however, only released Sh129,556,429 to the hospital, leaving a balance of Sh266,080,052 which to date, and without any explanation, has not been released. In its response, the executive said that the amount would be factored in in the next budget,” the report said.
The Auditor-General wants to know why the county executive spent the money meant for the hospital on explained budget areas.
Source : Daily Nation