Prof.Joseph Ouma Muga is one of the few geniuses we have in Kenya. The sad thing about his current state is that he has been detained in hospital after he failed to pay a bill amounting to less than Ksh 1 million.
Prof.Joseph Ouma Muga’s plight has been highlighted on several occasions and the worst of his condition is now his admission at low level Kikuyu Hospital.
To start with, Prof is a complete man wearing many hats. He has two sons and a daughter whom he took to School and are highly placed in different fields starting with Peter Muga aka Maembe Olo now married to an Australian in Tanzania. Another one is a lecturer at Strathmore University and lastly his daughter is a high ranking UN senior staff. They have abandoned the father completely.
The Prof was sacked by Moi as the Assistant Minister of Environment because he joined FORD KENYA in push for multiparty Democracy we enjoy today. He helped NARC Government to establish Ministry of State and Special Program to develop policies and he established NDMU & NDOC that handles Disaster in the country today.
Australia is purely on the Leeward side of BLUE ALPS MOUNTAINS and that means it was purely desert.UN selected a team of 7 world elites scientists in 1964 and from Africa ,Muga was chosen to help Australia in reforming the dry country. Today Australia is the world Leading Rice Exporter.
He is the one who introduced the terminology “GLOBAL WARMING” when he explained the long term effect of Depletion of the Ozone Layer as a result of greenhouse gas emissions due to 1st world rapid industrialisation.Through him UNISDR and UNEP have a working Frameworks eg Kyoto Protocol,COP/MOP,HFA1 & now Sendai Framework for DRR.
Lastly ,through his own Africa Renaissance For Environmental Studies he made it possible to draft our first ever National Disaster Management Policy recently ratified by the cabinet.