Ababu namwamba biography of albert

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He spent his early life in both Kenya and Uganda. Namwamba is the last child of a family of eight children, six boys, and two girls. Ababu Namwamba was elected as a student leader in Namwamba proceeded to found a public interest trust in called The Chambers of Justice , where he also served as Chief Counsel until and founded his own law firm, Ababu Namwamba Attorneys-at-Law.

He filed the case after two schools in Ngong and Karen stopped children from Nyumbani from attending school due to their HIV status. In , he won a terrorism case where his client, a Kenyan-born Pakistani, was wrongfully accused of terrorism. Robert Ouko. Namwamba was active on the international lobbying circuit, strongly advocating for international human rights, fair trade practices, and debt relief for Africa through platforms like the World Social Forum in such far-flung locations as Mumbai, India, and Porto Alegre, Brazil.

In , he left ODM because the party leader, Raila Odinga , who has lost the presidential election twice, was no longer capable of convincing people to vote for him. He joined the Labour Party of Kenya and has been the party leader since September The party announced its support in March , for presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta , in the election of August Namwamba was appointed to the position of Chief Administrative Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in January and was sworn into office in March