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Attorney General of Kenya

The Attorney General of Kenya is the head of the Kenyan State Law Office and the principal legal adviser to the government of Kenya. The current attorney general, Githu Muigai, was appointed on 29 August 2011.

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Map of Kenya

History

The Office of the Attorney General draws its mandate from Article 156 of the Constitution of Kenya (2010), which vests on the Attorney General the responsibility of being the Principal Legal Adviser to the Government, to ensure that the rule of law is promoted, protected and upheld and defend the public interest. Further the Office of the Attorney General Act No. 49 of 2012 clearly spells out the functions of the office that include:

Attorneys General of East Africa Protectorate (1895–1920)

  • Alfred Karney Young (1906–1909)
  • Ralph Molyneux Combe (1912–1914)
  • Sir Jacob William Barth (1914–1918) (Chief Justice of Kenya, 1920)
  • Ivan Llewelyn Owen Gower (1918) (acting)
  • Robert William Lyall-Grant (1918–1920)

    • Attorneys General of British Kenya (1920–1963)

  • Robert William Lyall-Grant (1920–1925)
  • Ivan Llewelyn Owen Gower (1925–1926) (acting)
  • Walter Clarence Huggard (1926–1929) (afterwards Attorney General of Malaya, 1929)
  • Sir Alisdair Duncan Atholl MacGregor (1929–1934)
  • Walter Harragin (1933–}
  • Sir Stafford W.P. Foster Sutton (1944–1948)
  • Sir Kenneth O'Connor (1948–)
  • John Wyatt (1951–1955)
  • Sir Eric Newton Griffiths-Jones (1955–)
  • Sir Eric Newton Griffiths-Jones (1960–1963)

    • Attorneys General of Kenya (since 1963)

  • Charles Mugane Njonjo (1963 – 1979)
  • James B. Karugu (1980-1981)
  • Joseph Kamere (1981-1983)
  • Matthew Guy Muli (1983-1991)
  • Amos Wako (1991 - 2011)
  • Githu Muigai (2011 - Present)

    • References

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