Name Ababu Namwamba | Role Minister | |
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Party Orange Democratic Movement Education Kenya School of Law, Washington College of Law, University of Nairobi | ||
One on one with Ababu Namwamba: State of foreign relations #DayBreak
Pius Tawfiq Ababu Namwamba is a Kenyan politician and lawyer, since 2016 leader of the Labour Party of Kenya.
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- One on one with Ababu Namwamba State of foreign relations DayBreak
- Ababu namwamba file a motion seeking to have state officers take a 50 pay cut
- Biography
- Legal practice
- Political career
- References
Ababu namwamba file a motion seeking to have state officers take a 50 pay cut
Biography
Namwamba was born in Jinja, Uganda to Kenyan parents on 23 December 1975, and raised in Uganda and later Kenya. Outside politics he is a Public Interest Attorney specializing in international human rights and constitutional law, and a former columnist with leading newspapers in Kenya. He is married to Priscah and has five children.
Legal practice
He served as the Chief Counsel at the Chambers of Justice, which is a Public Interest Foundation he founded in 2002. He also heads his own legal practice, Ababu Namwamba & Co. in Nairobi, Kenya. Namwamba has made significant contributions to the democratization struggle in Kenya, right from his days as a student leader at the University of Nairobi. Since 2003, he has advocated for democracy and good governance in Kenya in a research process dubbed “After the Promise”, which critically analyses performance of government and other political actors.
Political career
Namwamba was first elected to parliament in the Kenyan parliamentary election, 2007 as a member of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), representing Budalang'i Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya. He was Parliamentary Secretary of the ODM from 2008 to 2013, and served as Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs from 2012 until the ODM lost office in the 2013 election.
In 2016, Namwamba quit ODM where he was serving as Secretary General. He felt that the party leader Raila Odinga (who had stood for the presidency twice) was no longer capable of convincing voters to support him. He joined the newly relaunched Labour Party of Kenya, and since September 2016 he has been the leader of the Labour Party. In March 2017 the Labour Party announced that it would support the presidential candidacy of Uhuru Kenyatta in the election of August 2017. Namwamba lost his Budalang'i seat in that election.